SAT Math· difficulty 3/5
A line of best fit is built from data with ranging from 0 to 10. Using the line to predict when is an example of:
Mean estimation
Extrapolation (less reliable)
Confidence interval
Interpolation (reliable)
Explanation
Predicting outside the range of observed data is extrapolation, which is generally less reliable.
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