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The table below gives data from a study that shows that social exclusion causes "real pain." That is, activity in the area of the brain that responds to physical pain goes up as distress from social exclusion goes up. The scatterplot for this data shows a moderately strong linear relationship. The data are given below. Social Brain Social Brain Subject distress activity Subject distress activity 1 1.28 −0.055 8 2.20 0.025 2 1.87 −0.040 9 2.58 0.027 3 1.08 −0.026 10 2.77 0.033 4 2.48 −0.016 11 2.77 0.064 5 2.17 −0.016 12 3.31 0.077 6 2.61 0.016 13 3.63 0.124 7 2.03 0.021
(a) What is the equation of the least-squares regression line for predicting brain activity from social distress score? (Round your answers to four decimal places.) brain activity = social distress +
(b) On your plot, show the "up and over" lines that predict
brain activity for social distress score 2.2. Use the equation of
the regression line to get the predicted brain activity level.
Verify that it agrees with your plot. (Round your answer to four
decimal places.)
(c) What percent of the variation in brain activity among these
subjects is explained by the straight-line relationship with social
distress score? (Round your answer to a whole number.)
%