=+The newspaper article “FDA OKs Use of Home Defibrillators” (San Luis Obispo Tribune, November 13, 2002)

reported that “every minute spent waiting for paramedics to arrive with a defibrillator lowers the chance of survival by 10 percent.” Is this statement consistent with the given least-squares line? Explain.
5.27 An article on the cost of housing in California that appeared in the San Luis Obispo Tribune (March 30, 2001)
included the following statement: “In Northern California, people from the San Francisco Bay area pushed into the Central Valley, benefiting from home prices that dropped on average $4000 for every mile traveled east of the Bay area.” If this statement is correct, what is the slope of the least-squares regression line, , where y 5 house price (in dollars) and x 5 distance east of the Bay (in miles)? Explain.