Interpreting the Slope of a Scatter Plot

What does the slope mean in the context of the situation graphed?

• You burn 500 calories every 60 minutes of exercise.

• You eat 500 calories when you eat out 60 times.

• You burn 100 calories every 10 minutes of exercise.

• You should not exercise.

What is the slope of the graph shown?
Use the points (0,0) and (60,500) to determine the slope.

Check both the original AND reduced answer.

Check the two ways you could write the slope for the graph shown.

Use (1995, 800) and (2001, 400) as two good points.

• -400/6

• 400/6

• -200/3

• 200/3

What does the slope mean in the situation shown?

• Mumps is not a disease you want to have.

• We have 400 more cases of mumps every 6 years.

• There are less cases of mumps as time goes on.

• There are 400 fewer cases of mumps every 6 years that pass.

the slope is -5/7, what does that mean?

• gain 5 hour of sleep for 7 cups of coffee

• lose 5 hours of sleep for 7 cups of coffee

• lose 7 cups of coffee for 5 hours of sleep

• lose 5 cups of coffee for 7 hours of sleep

Check 2 true statements about the slope for this graph.

Use (0, 16) and (120,2) as "good points."

• You lose about 14 reps for every 120 pounds added.
  

• You gain 16 pounds for every 120 minutes of exercise.
  

Choose the correct variable relationship statement for the following graph.

• As the years decrease, the number of newspapers go down.

• The more time that passes, the number of newspapers sold goes down.

• Every year you sell 10 less newspapers.

• As time passes, we sell more newspapers.

Which statement is the most accurate interpretation of the data?

• As time went by, the temperature tended to decrease

• As time went by the temperature tended to increase

• There is no relationship between time and temperature.

What type of association does this graph have?

• positive

• negative

• none

• all of the above

Describe the association for the scatterplot based on data plotted.

• As the weeks increase, the amount of money on the gift card increases.

• As the weeks decrease, the amount of money on the gift card increases.

• There is no relationship between the time in weeks and the amount of dollars.

• As the weeks increase, the amount of money on the gift card decreases.