The veterinarian told Sally that her cat needs to lose 5 pounds. A healthy weight loss for her cat would be about 1 pound every 2 weeks. To model this situation, she graphed the following line, where y represents the number of pounds left to lose and x represents time in weeks.

The equation for this line is y = _x + _. If she continues the line, she would see that it would take _
weeks for her cat to lose 5 pounds.

Let us imagine that the number of automobile accidents in a certain region are related to the regional number of registered automobiles in tens of thousands (b1), alcoholic beverage sales in $10,000 (b2), and decrease in the price of gasoline in cents (b3). furthermore, imagine that the regression formula has been calculated as: y = a + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x3 where y = the number of automobile accidents, a = 7.5, b1 = 3.5, b2 = 4.5, and b3 = 2.5 calculate the expected number of automobile accidents for a football weekend if the region has 25,000 registered vehicles, $75,000 worth of beer is sold, and a gas war causes a 10 cent drop in a gallon of gas.