Delivery Time Narrative Let X Be the Number of Pieces of Furniture in of Furniture

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Delivery Time Narrative
Let x be the number of pieces of furniture in a delivery truck and y be the time (in hours) it takes the delivery person to deliver all the pieces of furniture. A simple linear regression analysis related x and y where the least-squares estimates of the regression parameters are a = 1.85 and b = 0.55.
-Refer to Delivery Time Narrative. Use the least-squares regression line to estimate the time it takes to deliver ten pieces of furniture. (You may assume that ten is in the range of the data.)

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