Step 1 :Given the commute times (in minutes) and scores on a well-being survey, we are asked to find the least-squares regression line treating the commute time, $x$, as the explanatory variable and the index score, $y$, as the response variable.
Step 2 :The data provided is as follows: $x = [5, 15, 30, 40, 60, 84, 105]$ and $y = [69.0, 67.8, 66.3, 65.6, 64.1, 62.9, 60.6]$
Step 3 :The number of observations, $n$, is 7.
Step 4 :The sum of $x$, denoted as $\sum x$, is 339.
Step 5 :The sum of $y$, denoted as $\sum y$, is 456.3.
Step 6 :The sum of the product of $x$ and $y$, denoted as $\sum xy$, is 21467.6.
Step 7 :The sum of the square of $x$, denoted as $\sum x^2$, is 24431.
Step 8 :The mean of $x$, denoted as $\bar{x}$, is approximately 48.43.
Step 9 :The mean of $y$, denoted as $\bar{y}$, is approximately 65.19.
Step 10 :We can calculate the slope of the least-squares regression line, $b1$, using the formula $b1 = \frac{n(\sum xy) - (\sum x)(\sum y)}{n(\sum x^2) - (\sum x)^2}$. Substituting the known values, we find that $b1$ is approximately -0.079.
Step 11 :We can calculate the y-intercept of the least-squares regression line, $b0$, using the formula $b0 = \bar{y} - b1\bar{x}$. Substituting the known values, we find that $b0$ is approximately 68.995.
Step 12 :\(\boxed{\text{Final Answer: The least-squares regression line is } \hat{y}=-0.079x+68.995}\)