Ornithologists, scientists who study birds, tag sparrow hawks in 1313 different colonies to study their population. They gather data for the percent of new sparrow hawks in each colony and the percent of those that have returned from migration.

Percent return: 77; 66; 83; 54; 73; 64; 52; 40; 66; 45; 60; 46; 38 Percent new: 66; 55; 88; 14; 12 15 16; 17; 18; 18; 15; 20; 20

Enter the data into your calculator and make a scatter plot. Use your calculator's regression function to find the equation of the least-squares regression line. Add this to your scatter plot.

A) What is the equation of the least-squares regression line? Use xx to represent percent return. Round any calculated values to twodecimal places.

y=_______

B) Explain in words what the slope and yy-intercept of the regression line tell us. Round your answer to twodecimal places. The slope of the least squares line is -0.27. For each percentage increase in returning birds, the percentage of new birds in the colony decreases by 0.27. The y-intercept of the least squares line is ________. When there are no returning sparrow hawks, there will be almost ______ new sparrow hawks.

C) How well does the regression line fit the data? Explain your response. Round your answer to twodecimal places. The coefficient of determination indicates that ___% of the variation in the percent of new birds is explained by the model. The correlation coefficient, r= ____ indicates a fairly strong correlation between returning and new percentages.