Statistics Through Applications
Statistics Through Applications
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ISBN: 9781429219747
Author: Daren S. Starnes, David Moore, Dan Yates
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 4.12E
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To find out the relationship between the percent of students in a state who were eligible for free or reduced price school lunches and the percent who scored proficient on the NEAP mathematics test by constructing the well labeled scatterplot.

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Answer to Problem 4.12E

The relationship is a negative association (slopes downwards), moderately (point do no lie far apart but are not close together either) and linear (points from a line).

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The scatterplot defining the relationship between the percent of students in a state who were eligible for free or reduced price school lunches and the percent who scored proficient on the NEAP mathematics test is as follows:

  Statistics Through Applications, Chapter 4.1, Problem 4.12E

By looking at the scatterplot we can say that, the relationship is a negative association (slopes downwards), moderately (point do no lie far apart but are not close together either) and linear (points from a line).

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