) How many kilowatt hours would the model predict on a day that has 14 hours of possible daylight?

Question:

A solar power company is trying to correlate the total possible hours of daylight (simply the time from sunrise to sunset) on a given day to the production from solar panels on a residential unit. They created a scatter plot for one such unit over the span of five months. The scatter plot is shown below. The equation line of best fit for this bivariate data set was: y = 2.26x + 20.01

How many kilowatt hours would the model predict on a day that has 14 hours of possible daylight?

51.65 kilowatt hours

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the equation line of best fit for this data as:

y = 2.26x + 20.01

On a day that has 14 hours of possible daylight, the model prediction will be calculated as follow:

Let x = 14 in the equation.

Therefore,

y = 2.26x + 20.01

y = 2.26(14) + 20.01

y = 31.64 + 20.01

y = 51.65

On a day that has 14 hours of daylight, the model would predict 51.65 kilowatt hours