Professor Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time. Prior to his death, he wrote nearly 500 books during a 40-year career. In fact, as his career progressed, he became even more productive in terms of the number of books written within a given period of time.1 The data give the time in months required to write his books in increments of 100:

a. Assume that the number of books x and the time in months y are linearly related. Find the least-squares line relating y to x.
b. Plot the time as a function of the number of books written using a scatterplot, and graph the least-squares line on the same paper. Does it seem to provide a good fit to the data points?
c. Construct the ANOVA table for the linear regression.

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Number of Books, x 100 200 300 400 490 Time in Months, y 237 350 419 465 507