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CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2018 · Paper 1 · Question Q39

The regression line y on x

  1. (A)minimizes the sum of the differences between the paired x and y values
  2. (B)is used to estimate x for a given value of y in a situation where x and y are not dependent on each other
  3. (C)minimizes the sum of the squares of the differences between the recorded and predicted values of x
  4. (D)is used to estimate y for a given value of x in a situation where x is the independent variable and y is the dependent variable

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