As part of a statistics project, Beth surveyed her classmates to see how much time they spent on various activities over the last week. Beth then compared the number of hours they spent on homework, x, to the number of hours they spent on independent reading, y. This is the regression line for her data:
y=–
0.1x+2.3
Complete the sentence.
For each additional hour of homework, the regression line predicts that a student would spend fewer hours on independent reading.