This document is a collection of poems and captions about graphs on various topics such as bike steering angles, Game of Thrones viewership, CO2 rise, hurricane winds, and more. The poems express how graphs can be interesting, educate students on trends, and provide comfort or happiness. They encourage following the "Graphs In The World" Facebook and Instagram accounts for daily doses of graphs.
25. Old Faithful eruptions at
Yellowstone
Estimate a best-fit line.
Describe the fit of the line using the correlation and determination coefficients.
1. Old Faithful is a geyser at Yellowstone National Park. Below is a graph of the length of an
Old Faithful eruption graphed with the waiting time prior to the eruption. Draw a best-fit line
through the data. Note: You can either print the graph or copy the image to a digital editing
program or OneNote to add your line (use the ruler tool). Estimate the correlation coefficient for
this set of data and explain your choice. Estimate the coefficient of determination for this set of
data and explain your choice.
2019