An alien spacecraft has crash landed on Earth and biologists were able to measure concen- trations...

 

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An alien spacecraft has crash landed on Earth and biologists were able to measure concen- trations of an unknown chemical as a function of radius from the crash-sight. The values of concentration (y) and radius (x) are as follows: X = [0.02] 0.10 0.32 0.66 [0.94] 1 y = [1.93 2.60 3.03 3.97 4.89 The biologists are turning to you to ask you to determine a line that best fits this data. That is, they want a best approximation to the problem y = ax + be where a, b eR are the constants to be solved for and e= 1 . Can you help Planet Earth?! Once you have solved for a, b, provide a plot that includes both the raw data (with circles or some comparable marker) as well as the best fit line through the data. An alien spacecraft has crash landed on Earth and biologists were able to measure concen- trations of an unknown chemical as a function of radius from the crash-sight. The values of concentration (y) and radius (x) are as follows: X = [0.02] 0.10 0.32 0.66 [0.94] 1 y = [1.93 2.60 3.03 3.97 4.89 The biologists are turning to you to ask you to determine a line that best fits this data. That is, they want a best approximation to the problem y = ax + be where a, b eR are the constants to be solved for and e= 1 . Can you help Planet Earth?! Once you have solved for a, b, provide a plot that includes both the raw data (with circles or some comparable marker) as well as the best fit line through the data.