Assignment:
Predicting Subway Fare Table includes the pizza subway fare costs from the Chapter Problem, as well as the total number of runs scored in the baseball World Series for six different years. As of this writing, the cost of a slice of pizza in New York City was $2.25, and 33 runs were scored in the last World Series.
a. Use the pizza subway fare data from Table to predict the cost of a subway fare given that a slice of pizza costs $2.25.
b. Use the runs subway fare data from Table to predict the subway fare in a year in which 33 runs were scored in thex`World Series.
Table Costs of a Slice of Pizza, Total Number of Runs Scored in World Series, and Subway Fare
|
year
|
1960
|
1973
|
1986
|
1995
|
2002
|
2003
|
|
Cost of Pizza
|
0.15
|
0.35
|
1
|
1.25
|
1.75
|
2
|
|
Runs Scored in World Series
|
82
|
45
|
59
|
42
|
85
|
38
|
|
Subway Fare
|
0.15
|
0.35
|
1
|
1.35
|
1.5
|
2
|