Question

A study gathers data on the outside temperature during the winter, in degrees Fahrenheit, and the amount of natural gas a household consumes, in cubic feet per day. Call the temperature x and gas consumption y. The house is heated with gas, so x helps explain y. The least-squares regression line is yhat = 1344 – 19x. 1. On a day when the temperature is 20F, the regression line predicts that gas used will be about

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "964 cubic-feet".

Step-by-step explanation:

Given regression equation:

$\to Y = 1344 - 19X\\\\\to X= 20 \ F$

Putting the value of x into the above equation:

$\to Y = 1344-19\times20$

        $= 1344-380\\\\= 964 \ cubic-feet$