Refer to the Figure

question 36

Essay

Refer to the figure.
You are studying the composition of the diet of a predator species. Among other prey, this predator preys upon species A. You collect data on how species A's abundance is related to the percent of the predator's diet composed of this species. Based on the figure, at what percent of species A is the predator's diet comprised of 50% species A and 50% other prey?

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Definitions:

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or classified to observe their effect on dependent variables.

Error Sum Of Squares

A measure in statistical analysis that quantifies the discrepancy between the observed and estimated values under the model.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that indicates the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by measuring the dispersion of sample means around the population mean.

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistic that quantifies the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s), often symbolized as R^2.