Michelle employed a sample of 50 U.S. cities to determine the relationship between crime, or annual property crimes per 100,000 persons, and income, or median income per capita. Her estimated regression equation was crime = 428 - .01 income. Assuming her model is statistically significant, if income decreases by $1,000, we would predict that crime will?
A. decrease by 1
B. increase by 10
C. decrease by 10
D. increase by 100