In a statistics class, a teacher had the students complete an activity in which they grabbed as many bite-sized pretzels as they could with their dominant hand, without crushing them. The teacher then measured their handspan in centimeters. The scatterplot displays the data the teacher collected along with the least-squares regression line. One student with a handspan of 23 cm grabbed 38 pretzels. This point is circled on the graph.



What effect will the circled point have on the y-intercept?

The y-intercept will not change with the addition of this point.
The y-intercept will decrease because the point pulls the least-squares regression line toward it.
The y-intercept will increase because the point pulls the least-squares regression line toward it.
The y-intercept will increase because this point represents an extremely high number of pretzels grabbed with the dominant hand.


answer is B