Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 55

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-In order for a company's employees to work for the foreign office, they must take a test in the language of the country where they plan to work. The data below show the relationship between the number of years that employees have studied a particular language and the grades they received on the proficiency exam. What is the best predicted value for $y$ given $x = 5.5$ ?
$\begin{array}{l|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\text { Number of years, } \mathrm{x} & 3 & 4 & 4 & 5 & 3 & 6 & 2 & 7 & 3 \\\hline \text { Grades on test, } \mathrm{y} & 61 & 68 & 75 & 82 & 73 & 90 & 58 & 93 & 72\end{array}$

• A) 84
• B) 82
• C) 80
• D) 86

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