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Okay, so in part a, we're looking for the y -intercept.
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So if we have a regression equation that's the predicted y value equals a plus b times the x value, then we call a the y -intercept and b the slope.
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And the formula to work out the y -intercept, a, is given by the mean of all the y values in the data set minus the slope times the mean of all the x's.
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Now here we're told that the slope is 0 .34, so we can substitute that in so that it's the mean of the y is minus 0 .34 times the mean of all the x's.
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Now sadly, i can't see the data that goes along with this question, so i'm not going to be able to substitute in what the mean of the y's and the mean of the x's are.
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But hopefully you know how to calculate the mean and you can just calculate that from your set of data, plug those in, and then that will give you the intercept.
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If you did want an exact answer from us from these videos, if you could just next time you upload a question, if you could try and include a picture of the data for us, because that can just help us answer it as specifically as we can for you.
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But hopefully this gives you everything you need to do by yourself.
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And the same goes for the next question...