APPLICATIONS+INVESTIGATIONS IN EARTH
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Author: Tarbuck
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Chapter 24.7, Problem 10A
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The reason behind getting accurate prediction if the heights and shoe lengths of 10,000 people were used to construct the graph.
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Data regarding the shoe length and the height of the individuals was gathered from ten or more people. The relation between them was then studied.
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