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Question 35·Medium·Two-Variable Data: Models and Scatterplots

A wildlife scientist records the number of weeks since a river-restoration project began, xx, and the number of fish observed during a standard survey, yy. A scatterplot of the data is shown, along with a line of best fit.

Two points on the line of best fit are labeled (2,18)(2,18) and (8,42)(8,42). Which choice is the equation of the line of best fit?