Handling data: H1 The women's mile?The spreadsheet shows you the women's world mile records from 1954 until recently. Is there a pattern to these results?By changing the values of m and c you can try to find a predictor function y = mx+c, where x represents the year and y the record time, which accurately predicts the record. Try to get the values of y to match as closely as possible to the true record times.
(a) What would you predict the record to be this year? |