SAT Two-variable data: models and scatterplots Question
Scientists collected fallen acorns that each housed a colony of the ant species P. ohioensis and analyzed each colony's structure. For any of these colonies, if the colony has worker ants, the equation , where , gives the predicted number of larvae, , in the colony. If one of these colonies has 52 worker ants, which of the following is closest to the predicted number of larvae in the colony?
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SAT linear models: what the slope and intercept mean in the story — The SAT asks what a number in a linear model represents, not what it equals. Slope is a rate per unit of the input; the intercept is the value the model gives when the input is zero.