Use the listed boat/manatee data. In a year not included in the data below, there were 970,000 registered pleasure boats in Florida. Find the best predicted number of manatee fatalities resulting from encounters with boats. Is the result reasonably close to 79, which was the actual number of manatee fatalities?

In each case, find the regression equation, letting the first variable be the predictor (x) variable. Find the indicated predicted value by following the prediction procedure summarized in Figure 10-5 on page 493.
Figure 10-5

Pleasure Boats 97 95 90 90 87 90 73 90 Manatee Fatalities 92 73 90 97 83 88 81 68 Strategy for Predicting Values of y Is the regression equation a good model? The regression line graphed in the scatterplot shows that the line fits the points well. r indicates that there is a linear correlation. The prediction is not much beyond the scope of the available sample data. Yes. The regression No. The regression equation is not a good model. equation is a good model. Substitute the given v into the regression equation alue of X Regardless of the value of x, the best predicted value of y is the value of y (the mean of the y values)