Celine is a food blogger who posts recipes for salads and salad dressings on her website. This scatter plot shows the number of ingredients in each salad dressing recipe along with the number of likes that recipe received. The scatter plot also shows the line of best fit.

Question

The equation for the line of best fit is y=
–
65x+700. Based on the equation, which of these statements is true?

Answer 1

Based on the equation y = -65x + 700, the statement that is true is: as the number of ingredients in a salad dressing recipe increases, the number of likes received decreases.