Riley wants to predict a soccer team's number of wins. She considers the number of goals scored by the team's top scorer during
a season. Riley makes a scatter plot using data from the team's past 13 seasons. Which is the equation of the trend line that most closely models this data?
Without the actual scatter plot we would need to deduce from the options provided which would closely model the data. Since the number of goals scored in a game can only be 0 or positives then we can remove options a) and c) since a value of x = 0 would output a negative value to y. That leaves us with options b) and d). Since we know that soccer games vary in the number of goals then we can remove option d) since it represents a steady trend line of 4. Finally, we are left with option b) as the answer.
