A team of researchers recorded the number of foxes (x) and rabbits (y) in a certain forest every autumn for twenty years. They used the data to make a scatter plot. Then, they used a computer to find that the equation of the line of best fit is y equals negative forty x plus six thousand.

Based on the equation of the line of best fit, y equals negative forty x plus six thousand, which of these statements is true?

Question

A team of researchers recorded the number of foxes (x) and rabbits (y) in a certain forest every autumn for twenty years. They used the data to make a scatter plot. Then, they used a computer to find that the equation of the line of best fit is y equals negative forty x plus six thousand.

Based on the equation of the line of best fit, y equals negative forty x plus six thousand, which of these statements is true?

anonymous · Answer

In a season in which no rabbits were present, there would be six thousand foxes.
	In a season in which no rabbits were present, there would be forty foxes.
	In a season in which no foxes were present, there would be six thousand rabbits.
	In a season in which no foxes were present, there would be forty rabbits.

anonymous · Answer

$$y=6000-40 x $$When x = 0, no foxes, y, rabbits, = 6000
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