Scatter Plots Worksheet
A Grade 6 math worksheet focused on understanding, interpreting, and creating scatter plots.
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Scatter Plots Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. For graphing questions, make sure your plots are clear and accurately represent the data.
1. What is a scatter plot used to show?
2. Describe what a positive correlation looks like on a scatter plot.
3. Which type of correlation is shown when points on a scatter plot generally go downwards from left to right?
Positive correlation
Negative correlation
No correlation
Linear correlation
4. The scatter plot below shows the number of hours students spent studying for a test and their test scores.
Based on the scatter plot, what kind of correlation exists between study hours and test scores? Explain your reasoning.
5. A correlation occurs when there is no clear pattern between the two variables.
6. The two axes on a scatter plot are typically labeled with the and variables.
7. Create a scatter plot for the following data showing the age of a car and its value (in thousands of dollars).
Data:
Age (years): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Value (thousands $): 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4
What type of correlation does your scatter plot show?
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