As you move the bar up and down, the value of the sum of absolute deviations and the sum of squared deviations changes. See if you can find the placement of the black bar that produces the smallest va...As you move the bar up and down, the value of the sum of absolute deviations and the sum of squared deviations changes. See if you can find the placement of the black bar that produces the smallest value for the sum of the squared deviations. For the initial data, the value that minimizes the sum of squared deviations is also the value that minimizes the sum of absolute deviations. is the sum of the absolute deviations; the "Total Area" is the sum of the squared deviations.
