Analyzing Patterns in Scatter Plots

To make predictions

To make the graph look pretty

To connect the points

To make it look like you know what you are doing

The point is a linear model.

The point is an outlier.

The point is the range.

The point is the median.

A

B

C

D

Strong Negative

Strong Positive

Weak Negative

Weak Positive

Weak Negative

Weak Positive

Strong Negative

Strong Positive

25 hours

35 hours

45 hours

15 hours

correlation coefficient

causation

positive association

negative association

As the temperature decreases, the visitors increase.

As the temperature increases, the number of visitors increases.

As the visitors increase, the temperature decreases.

No correlation

positive

negative

none

all of the above

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