If you drop a pencil randomly on a scatterplot, what aspect are you changing as you rotate the pencil about the point where it crosses the Y axis?
A) the slope.
B) the intercept.
C) the correlation.
D) the residual.

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Rotating a pencil about the point where it crosses the Y-axis changes the angle of the line in relation to the axes, which directly affects the slope of the line. The slope is defined as the change in the y-coordinate divided by the change in the x-coordinate between two points on a line, and rotating the pencil alters this ratio.

If You Drop a Pencil Randomly on a Scatterplot, What