A biologist observed a curved relationship between the average heart rates and life expectancies of several mammal species in a large sample. The biologist took the natural logarithm for the values of both variables,
and they noticed a linear relationship in the transformed data.
Here's the least-squares regression equation for the transformed data, where life expectancy (LE) is in
years and heart rate (HR) is in beats per minute.
In(LE
6.33 – 0.78 In(HR)
According to this model, what is the predicted life expectancy of a mammal species whose average heart
rate is 200 beats per minute?
You may round your answer to the nearest whole year.
years
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