Have you ever looked at your math paper and questioned why do I have to make a trend line? Is making a trend line really necessary? Well, trend lines allow the user to see a more defined trend of the data. Also, the creation of a trend line allows a correlation between the two subjects to be viewed easier. Trend lines help people accurately determine future outcomes that can come in handy if there is a problem. This is possible because trend lines make it easier to find the slope intercept equation. This equation could be used to find future points in the graph. In this essay I will try to determine who is the best basketball player between Lebron James and Michael Jordan by using a trend line. Before finding the better player, we first have
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To figure this out I chose to look at each player's P.E.R, or player efficiency rating. P.E.R shows a player's efficiency over time. Now to find who is the better player we first have to make a graph. Before graphing I decided only to count each player's first 14 seasons because Michael Jordan only played 14 seasons. After examining the graphs, we can tell that the two players have a lot of similarities. Both had four seasons with a rating of 30 and both graphs are high in the center and get lower in the corners. Right now, we need a trend line because these graphs are very similar. After looking at the trend line, I was able to see that in the center of their careers they had about the same P.E.R. However, Jordan seemed to have a better beginning of his career and James had a better second half of his …show more content…
If there is a problem, using a trend line can find future outcomes. In the situation that we solved today, the use of trend lines helped us out a lot. By using trend lines, we were able to find who had the higher P.E.R. Accordingly, we were able to see each player's correlation of P.E.R throughout the years. When doing this project, I realized that trend lines can be used to do more than one thing. What this means is, that I used a trend line to find an average, but if I was solving a different situation I might have used the trend line differently. Also, it is enjoyable using trend lines because it is fairly simple to find the slope and then turn it into y-intercept form. Hopefully, it is clear that trend lines can be used in real world
To figure this out I chose to look at each player's P.E.R, or player efficiency rating. P.E.R shows a player's efficiency over time. Now to find who is the better player we first have to make a graph. Before graphing I decided only to count each player's first 14 seasons because Michael Jordan only played 14 seasons. After examining the graphs, we can tell that the two players have a lot of similarities. Both had four seasons with a rating of 30 and both graphs are high in the center and get lower in the corners. Right now, we need a trend line because these graphs are very similar. After looking at the trend line, I was able to see that in the center of their careers they had about the same P.E.R. However, Jordan seemed to have a better beginning of his career and James had a better second half of his …show more content…
If there is a problem, using a trend line can find future outcomes. In the situation that we solved today, the use of trend lines helped us out a lot. By using trend lines, we were able to find who had the higher P.E.R. Accordingly, we were able to see each player's correlation of P.E.R throughout the years. When doing this project, I realized that trend lines can be used to do more than one thing. What this means is, that I used a trend line to find an average, but if I was solving a different situation I might have used the trend line differently. Also, it is enjoyable using trend lines because it is fairly simple to find the slope and then turn it into y-intercept form. Hopefully, it is clear that trend lines can be used in real world