Scatter Plot Word Problems
Practice analyzing and interpreting scatter plots to solve real-world word problems at a 7th-grade level.
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Scatter Plot Word Problems
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Read each word problem carefully. Analyze the given scatter plot or data to answer the questions that follow. Pay attention to the relationship between the quantities.
1. The scatter plot below shows the number of hours studied for a math test and the score received on the test. Describe the association between the hours studied and the test score.
2. A study was conducted to see if there is a relationship between the age of a car and its selling price. The data is shown in the scatter plot below. What type of correlation does this scatter plot show?
3. Which of the following scatter plots would likely show a positive correlation?
Height of a person and their shoe size.
Number of hours a student sleeps and their test score.
The temperature outside and the number of people wearing coats.
The number of hours spent playing video games and the amount of time spent reading.
4. A scatter plot showing no clear pattern between two variables indicates a strong correlation.
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False
5. A veterinarian tracks the weight of puppies as they grow. She records the age of each puppy (in weeks) and its weight (in pounds). If a scatter plot shows that as the age of the puppy increases, its weight also tends to increase, what kind of association is this?
6. In a scatter plot, an outlier is a data point that is far away from the other .
7. A scatter plot can help us visualize the between two variables.