What’s the expected heating load as a function of temperature?

[Adam Bourque]

Homework Statement

Excel Table gives Temperature of Month & Avg NOAAtemp for bill

Homework Equations

y = mx + b (Assuming)

The Attempt at a Solution

1) if we take temp of month as temp, linear model y=-0.1481*temp+124.8.
2) If we take temp for days of bill as temp, y=-0.1466*temp+124.74

 

[BvU]

Not very verbose, but interesting.
Do you have a question on this ? If not, I have one :
Did you look at the standard errors ?
And for that matter: did you look at he data ? What about April, 2012 ?