Level 2
The president of a union of factory employees used a random sample to collect data on
the number of years of experience and the hourly wages of the factory employees. She
then created a scatterplot with the data and drew a trend line as shown below.
Factory Wages
Hourly Pay (in dollars)
0
2 4 6 8 10 12
Years of Experience
Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of the y-intercept of the
trendline in the scatterplot?
A factory employee's hourly wage increases by about $0.80 for every additional year
of experience.
A factory employee with no experience will start with an hourly wage of about
$10.00
Afactory employee with more than 10 years of experience will have an hourly wage
of more than $18.00.
The maximum hourly wage at the factory is $24.00