Lets say that you have data from the recent CIA World Factbo…

Lets say that you have data from the recent CIA World Factbook on electricity consumption in billions of kilowatt-hours (eleccons) and gross domestic product in billions of dollars (gdp) for the 30 most populous countries. For the purpose of this problem, assume that increases in electricity consumption tend to respond to increases in GDP (rather than the other way around). Consider the simple liner equaion  Y i = β 0 + β 1 X i + ε If you want to use the model to predict electricity consumption, say which variable should be the predictor (X) and which the response (Y) for this problem.