The Least Squares Criterion and Its Line Worksheet with Answer Key

What's on the worksheet

1. Kevin runs a school coat drive and counts the coats in the donation bin at the end of each school day (made-up data).
2. At a puzzle cafe, Arjun timed 10 customers, each finishing the same 500-piece jigsaw (made-up data).
3. Omar spreads a different amount of compost on five plots of a community garden and weighs each plot's zucchini harvest (made-up data).
4. An escape room records, for six teams, the number of players x and the minutes y the team took to get out (made-up data).
5. A wildlife class filmed ten hares running across snow (made-up data).
6. In a school greenhouse, Yuna gives every sunflower seedling 40 milliliters of water a day and records each seedling's growth y over a month (made-up…