Question

How can you model data with linear function?

Answer 1

Are you learning about "best fit" lines through data ?

Answer 2

Yeah kinda

Answer 3

Imagine you had a list of peoples height and weight
if you call height x and weight y
you could find a "best fit" line y = mx +b
(you find m and b)
now you can "predict" height if you know someone's weight by using this formula

Answer 4

Thank you i understand it a whole lot better!

Answer 5

The answer to
How can you model data with linear function?

is find a best fit line through the data using least-squares

Answer 6

If the data falls close to a line, you can replace a long list of data with a simple formula.

Answer 7

okay thank you!