Directions: • Use two thermometers, one Celsius and the other Fahrenheit, to measure the temperature of your hand. Place both thermometers in the palm of your hand and gently squeeze your hand shut. • Gather this information with your classmates, and aggregate tall of the data. Enter this information in two lists on the calculator. In the first list, enter the Celsius temperatures. In the second list, enter the Fahrenheit temperatures. • Make a scatter plot, where the independent variable is degrees in Celsius, and the dependent variable is degrees Fahrenheit. • Find the linear regression equation that best fits the data. • What is the correlation coefficient? Why
would you expect its value to be close to one?
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