Mr. Palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. He gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. Some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. The graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions.

According to the line of best fit, about how many words would a person remember if he or she is distracted by 7 text messages?

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Mr. Palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. He gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. Some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. The graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions.

According to the line of best fit, about how many words would a person remember if he or she is distracted by 7 text messages?

https://media.education2020.com/evresources/3109/3109-11/3109-1