Scatter Plot Quiz

Match the scatter plots to its correct correlation

• Positive Correlation

• 
• Negative Correlation

• 
• No Correlation

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Identify the type of correlation:

Time spent walking and the distance you traveled

• Positive Correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

Identify the type of correlation:

The number of hours you sleep each night and the number of hours you have left in your day to be awake.

• Positive Correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

Identify the type of correlation:

The number of logs you put on fire and the amount of heat that the fire gives off.

• Positive Correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

Identify the type of correlation:

The number of brothers and sisters you have and the number of plants in your house.

• Positive Correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

Identify the type of correlation:

The number of times you use your eraser and the amount of eraser you have on your pencil.

• Positive Correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

Maryanne walks on nature trails. The table shows her time and distance for 5 different walks. Make a scatter plot of the data with the x-axis as time, and the y-axis as distance.

Which line on the scatter plot is a good line of fit for the data?

• Line a

• Line b

• Line c

• Line d

What is an outlier?

• A point far away from the other data points.

• Any point NOT on a good line of fit.

• Any point on a good line of fit.

• The y-intercept.

Which line is a good line of fit?

• Line b

• Line a

• Neither

• Both