“Finding the correlation coefficient for cycling accidents”

Cycle/car accidents are a serious concern for insurance companies.

Here are data on the mean age of cyclists killed each year in the United States during the decade from 1998 to 2010:

Here is a scatterplot of the data:

QUESTION: 

The data on cyclist accident deaths show a linear pattern. Find and interpret the equation of a linear model for that pattern.

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Year Mean 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 32 Age 32 33 33 35 36 37 36 39 39 41 40 41 41 42 40