Scatter Plots And Trend Lines
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Objectives:
…to construct scatter plots
...to determine correlations in scatter plots
...to draw a trend line
...to make conclusions based on trend lines
Assessment Anchor:
8.E.4.1 – Draw conclusions, make inferences and/or evaluate hypotheses
based on statistical and data displays.
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SCATTER PLOT – a graph that shows a relationship
between two sets of data
CORRELATION – a relationship between two sets of data
TREND LINE – a line that closely fits the data in a scatter
plot
NOTES and EXAMPLES
**To make a scatter plot, graph the data as ordered pairs!
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