The table shows the hourly wages (in dollars) of employees after they have worked at a company for 2 years. Use the linear regression feature on a graphing calculator to find an equation of the line of best fit for the data. Round each value in your equation to the nearest hundredth. Then use your
equation to estimate the hourly wage of an employee who has worked at the company for 20 years.
Years, 2 Hourly wage (dollars per hour), y
1
$10.42
5
$11.93
19
3
$11.17
7
$12.68
The line of best fit is y=
The approximate hourly wage of a person who has worked at the company for 20 years is $
per hour