A high school graduate makes a base salary of $100,000. The average time to complete college is 4 years. Write the regression equation for the relationship between salary (Y) and years of college education (X) assuming that salary is insensitive to (unaffected by) years of college education.
Regression equation gives information about the relation between dependent and independent variables.
The general form of a regression equation is y = a*x + b
where a is the slope of the line and b is a constant.
Here x represents years of college education and y represents salary.
Given salary is unaffected by years of college education i.e y doesn't depend on x
Which implies the regression equation is y = b i.e a = 0
Also given that a high school graduate makes a base salary of $100,000
Which implies b = 100,000
Therefore the regression equation is y = 100000
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