What was Joylin’s first error? She switched the divisor and the dividend when creating an equation to model the problem in step 1.
She replaced both the divisor and the dividend with their reciprocals when changing division to multiplication in step 2.
She multiplied the two numerators and the two denominators to generate her product in step 3.
She reduced the improper fraction incorrectly when getting her final answer.

Let us imagine that the number of automobile accidents in a certain region are related to the regional number of registered automobiles in tens of thousands (b1), alcoholic beverage sales in $10,000 (b2), and decrease in the price of gasoline in cents (b3). furthermore, imagine that the regression formula has been calculated as: y = a + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x3 where y = the number of automobile accidents, a = 7.5, b1 = 3.5, b2 = 4.5, and b3 = 2.5 calculate the expected number of automobile accidents for a football weekend if the region has 25,000 registered vehicles, $75,000 worth of beer is sold, and a gas war causes a 10 cent drop in a gallon of gas.