Question

mr. palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. he gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. the graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions. according to the line of best fit, about how many words would a person remember after being distracted by 7 text messages? 4 5 6 7

Explanation:

Step1: Locate 7 on x - axis

Find the value 7 on the x - axis (number of text messages).

Step2: Find corresponding y - value

Move vertically from \(x = 7\) to the line of best fit, then horizontally to the y - axis (number of words). The line of best fit at \(x = 7\) corresponds to \(y=4\).

Answer:

4