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Course: AP??/College Statistics?>?Unit 5
Lesson 1: Representing the relationship between two quantitative variables- Constructing a scatter plot
- Making appropriate scatter plots
- Example of direction in scatterplots
- Positive and negative linear associations from scatter plots
- Describing trends in scatter plots
- Bivariate relationship linearity, strength and direction
- Describing scatterplots (form, direction, strength, outliers)
- Describing scatterplots
- Clusters in scatter plots
- Outliers in scatter plots
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Making appropriate scatter plots
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Megan wants to predict how much gas is left in her tank based on the distance she has driven. She filled up her tank and measured the amount of gas in her tank (in liters) after driving certain distances (in kilometers). Her data is summarized in the table below.
Distance (km) | |||||||
Gas left (L) |
All of the scatter plots below display the data correctly, but which one of them displays the data best?
By convention, a good scatter plot uses a reasonable scale on both axes and puts the explanatory variable on the -axis.
By convention, a good scatter plot uses a reasonable scale on both axes and puts the explanatory variable on the
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