\widehat{y}=46.6+0.41x . Predict the score of a student who scored 50 on the midterm and a student who scored 100 on the midterm.

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2021-09-08

We expect that students who do well on the midterm exam in a course will usually also do well on the final exam. Gary Smith of Pomona College looked at the exam scores of all 346 students who took his statistics class over a 10-year period. Assume that both the midterm and final exam were scored out of 100 points. The actual least-squares line for predicting final-exam score y from midterm-exam score x was
y^=46.6+0.41x
Predict the score of a student who scored 50 on the midterm and a student who scored 100 on the midterm.

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Isma Jimenez

Isma Jimenez

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Given least-squares regresion line:
y^=46.6+0.41x
To predict the score of a student who scored 50 on the midterm, we replace x by 50 in least-squares regression line and evaluate:
y^=46.6+0.41x=46.6+0.41(50)=46.6+20.5=67.1
Thus the predicted final score of the student is then 67.1. To predict the score of student who scored 100 on the midterm, we replace x by 100 in the least-squares regression line and evaluate:
y^=46.6+0.41x=46.6+0.41(100)=46.6+41=87.6
Thus the predicted final score student is then 87.6.

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