The blood pressure and weight if Jellystone Park bears are correlated and .6 is the correlation coefficient of blood pressure with weight . The average blood pressure is 150 with variance 58.3 for Jellystone Park bears. For a randomly selected bear if we predict its blood pressure is 150 before weighing it , what is our expected squared error?

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The blood pressure and weight if Jellystone Park bears are correlated and .6 is the correlation coefficient of blood pressure with weight . The average blood pressure is 150 with variance 58.3 for Jellystone Park bears. For a randomly selected bear if we predict its blood pressure is 150 before weighing it , what is our expected squared error?

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