Question: A research experiment started in 2002 that studied the number of sea turtles (y) tagged by scientists in a given year, where x is the

A research experiment started in 2002 that studied the number of sea turtles (y) tagged by scientists in a given year, where x is the number of years since 2002. The least squares regression line is given by y=917,234444x.

Interpret the y-intercept of the least squares regression line.

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The predicted number of sea turtles tagged by scientists in the year 0 is 917,234.

The predicted number of sea turtles tagged by scientists in the year 2000 is 444.

The predicted number of sea turtles tagged by scientists in the year 2002 is 917,234.

The y-intercept should not be interpreted.

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