What effect would removing point have on regression line

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Question: A data set included the number of people per television set and the number of people per physician for 40 countries. The Fathom screen shot below displays a scatterplot of the data with the least-squares regression line added. In Ethiopia, there were 503 people per TV and 36,660 people per doctor. What effect would removing this point have on the regression line?

(a) Slope would increase; y intercept would increase.

(b) Slope would increase; y intercept would decrease.

(c) Slope would decrease; y intercept would increase.

(d) Slope would decrease; y intercept would decrease.

(e) Slope and y intercept would stay the same.

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