Miranda accidentally left food in her backyard one night and noticed a cat eating it the next morning. Miranda likes helping out the neighborhood cats, so she wonders if putting out more food will result in more cats coming to her backyard.
Over the next few nights, Miranda leaves out different amounts of food (in grams), x, and notes the number of cats in her backyard the following morning, y.
The least squares regression line of this data set is:
y = 0.002x – 0.253
Complete the following sentence:
If Miranda leaves out one additional gram of food at night, the least squares regression line predicts ___________
more cats will be in her backyard the next morning.