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Lines of Fit




                2. Use the best-fit line to predict the average hourly wage of construction workers in 2010.














                MINING For Exercises 3 and 4, use the table that shows the number of persons employed in mining from
                1980 to 2000.

               3. Make a scatter plot and draw a best-fit line.





















                                                                                   Source : U.S. Census Bureau













               4. Write an equation for the best-fit line and use it to predict the number of persons employed in mining in 2010.































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