The least-squares regression line is:
a. the line that makes the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of the data points from the line (the sum of squared residuals) as small as possible.
b. the line that passes through the most data points.
c. All of the answer options are correct.
d. the line such that half of the data points fall above the line and half fall below the line.

a. the line that makes the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of the data points from the line (the sum of squared residuals) as small as possible.

Step-by-step explanation:

If we have N points and we want to adjust a model

We can define the error associated to this like that:

So as we can see here we are adding the square distances between the real and the adjusted values in order to minimize the error for this reason the correct answer is:

a. the line that makes the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of the data points from the line (the sum of squared residuals) as small as possible.

For this case we need to calculate the slope with the following formula:

Where:

And we can find the intercept using this:

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step-by-step explanation:

exa:

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3+11

14

step-by-step explanation:

from this example, we can see that subtracting with integers is the same as adding the opposite. we can solve using a number line or by using the saying "keep, change, change" to us solve. it is important to remember that we can subtract a negative and end up with a larger number than we started with.