Question: Please use this as a guide where y = Number of Patients and = Robbery Rate. Could please show your work. Dr. Lillian Fok, a

Please use this as a guide where y = Number of Patients and = Robbery Rate. Could please show your work.

Dr. Lillian Fok, a New Orleans psychologist, specializes in treating patients who are agoraphobic (i.e., afraid to leave their homes). The following table indicates how many patients Dr. Fok has seen each year for the past 10 years. It also indicates what the robbery rate was in New Orleans during the same year:

The simple linear regression equation that shows the best relationship between the number of patients and the robbery rate is (round your responses to three decimal places):

Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of Patients 35 33 41 41 41 56 60 53 58 60
Robbery Rate per 1,000 Population 58.0 61.4 73.0 76.1 78.5 89.5 101.5 95.4 103.2 116.2

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where y = Number of Patients and = Robbery Rate.

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