A researcher selected 8 chicken farms from across the state for a study. The researcher recorded the number of hens and the number of eggs laid by those hens over a 24-hour period. The research then calculated a line of best fit for the data. The equation of the line of best it was y 0.97: +3.06 where x represents the number of hens and y represents the number of eggs.
Which statement is true?
0.97 represents the average number of eggs laid by a hen per day
3.06 represents the average number of eggs laid by a hen per day
0.97 represents the average number of hens that laid eggs per day
3.06 represents the average number of hens that laid eggs per day