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Consider the following data values of variables x and y

X - 4 2 6 4 3
y - 5 3 7 6 5

The equation of the least-squares regression line for this data is

1.) ? = 1.659 + 0.932x
2.) ? = 0.1726 + 1.323x
3.) ? = 7.248 - 0.539x
4.) ? = -1.046 + 0.932x
5.) ? = 0.932 + 1.659x

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