Eleven states were randomly selected from among the 50 United States. This data represents the percentage of households in each state that are below the poverty level (Poverty Rate) based on household income and the percentage of adults in the state who had earned at least a high school degree (HS and Above) (a) Describe the relationship between the variables.
(b) What is the slope of the least-squares regression line for this data? Interpret this value.
(c) Predict the percent of adults who had attained at least a high school degree for the state
with a poverty rate of 15%? Show your work.
(d) Find the residual for the state with a poverty rate of 15%. Interpret the residual.