APPLICATION A U.S. Census is conducted every ten years. One of the purposes of the

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APPLICATION A U.S. Census is conducted every ten years. One of the purposes of the Census is to measure each states population in order to determine how many members each state will have in the House of Representatives for the next decade. Use the table to look for a relationship between a states population and the number of members from that state in the House of Representatives.a. Which statement makes more sense: The population depends on the number of members in the House of Representatives, or the number of members in the House of Representatives depends on the population? b. Based on your answer to 5a, define variables and make a scatter plot of the data. c. Find the equation of a line of fit. What is the realworld meaning of the slope? What is the real-world meaning of the y-intercept? d. The 2000 Census estimated Californias population at 33.9 million. Use your equation to estimate the number of members California has in the House of Representatives. e. Minnesota has eight members in the House of Representatives. Use your equation to estimate the population of Minnesota. f. You might find that a direct variation equation in the form y = bx fits your data. Is this a reasonable model for the data? Explain why or why not.