JASON WILKINS – Week 2 Homework

3/13/2015 Prof. Knopp

4.24 Mark Gershon, owner of a musical instrument distributorship, thinks that demand for guitars may
be related to the number of television appearances by the popular group Maroon 5 during the previous
month. Mark has collected the data shown in the following table:

Demand for Guitars 3 6 7 5 10 7

Maroon 5 TV Appearances 347685

(a) Graph these data to see whether a linear equation might describe the relationship between the
group’s television shows and guitar sales. The points do cluster around the trend line, suggesting
a possible correlation.

Maroon 5 TV Appearances
9
8 y = 0.6585x + 1.3293 8
7 7
6 6
5 5
4 4
3 3
2
1
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

(b) Use the least-squares regression method to derive a forecasting equation.

Our Formula: y = ax + b
a = 0.65853658536585
b = 1.3292682926829 = Y-Intercept
Therefore, y = 0.659x + 1.33
(c) What is your estimate for guitar sales if Maroon 5 performed on TV nine times last month?
10 guitars
(d) What are the correlation coefficient (r) and the coefficient of determination (r2) for this model,
and what do they mean? r = .825 and r2 = .68 - They are a measure of the strength and direction
of the linear relationship between the two variables
4.46 Thirteen students entered the business program at Sante Fe College 2 years ago. The following
table indicates what each student scored on the high school SAT math exam and their grade-point
averages (GPAs) after students were in the Sante Fe program for 2 years:

Student A B C D E F G H I J K L M
SAT
Score 421 377 585 690 608 390 415 481 729 501 613 709 366
GPA 2.9 2.93 3 3.45 3.66 2.88 2.15 2.53 3.22 1.99 2.75 3.9 1.6

SAT Scores & GPA

800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

SAT Score GPA

(a) Is there a meaningful relationship between SAT math scores and grades?
Yes, and a positive one.
(b) If a student scores a 350, what do you think his or her GPA will be?
Y(GPA) = 2.22
(c) What about a student who scores 800?
Y(GPA) = 3.75