Question

A student researches the average cost of electricity, in cents per kilowatt-hour, in the United States since 2000 and creates the scatter plot below.

Answer 1

Given: A scatter plot as shown in the image

To Determine: The image that best represent the model function fitted for the given

Solution

The 'line of best fit' is a line that goes roughly through the middle of all the scatter points on a graph.

Let us examine each of the options

From the above the best model function fitted for the given data is