Use the following to answer questions:

A company wants to study the relationship between an employee's length of employment and their number of workdays absent. The company collected the following information on a random sample of seven employees

Number of Workdays Absen2 3 3 5 77 8

Length of Employment (in yrs) 56 94 22 0

1.What is the independent variable (X)?

2.What is the dependent variable (Y)?

3.What is the slope of the linear equation?

4.What is the Y intercept of the linear equation?

5.What is the least squares equation for the data?

6.What is the meaning of a negative slope?

7.What is the standard error of estimate?