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Mr. Palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. He gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. Some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. The graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions. According to the line of best fit, about how many words would a person remember if he or she is distracted by 7 text messages? words

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5 is the answer folks

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User Orez
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Here is the answer based on the given scenario above. According to Mr. Palmer's experiment, based on the line of best fit, the approximate number of words that a person would remember if he or she is distracted by 7 text messages would be about FIVE (5) WORDS. Hope this answers your question. 
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