Question 10.52

10.52 Size and selling price of houses.

Table 10.5 (page 509) gives data on the size in square feet of a random sample of houses sold in a Midwest city along with their selling prices.

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  1. Find the mean size of these houses and also their mean selling price . Give the equation of the least-squares regression line for predicting price from size, and use it to predict the selling price of a house of mean size. (You knew the answer, right?)
  2. Jasmine and Woodie are selling a house whose size is equal to the mean of our sample. Give an interval that predicts the price they will receive with 95% confidence.