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Scatterplot / correlation homework problems

Unless you are fluent in Excel, or can figure out another way to create scatterplots, you need not send them with your Nulls, Alts & Conclusions to these problems. Keep them and when I send the answers, you will be able to determine if your scatterplots resembled mine.

NOTE: when constructing scatterplots, "X" is the first (left most) column of numbers

as in↓↓

X

Y

1)

A statistics professor had tried several methods of assessing

T-F

Problems

proficiency. After a while, he began to believe that true-false

4.8

4.5

tests were as good as tests full of problems for this purpose.

4.0

4.7

So he gave one of his classes both types of tests covering

2.5

2.0

the same material. What happened?

1.0

1.2

1.6

1.2

Write the Null, Alt, construct the scatterplot & write the conclusion.

2.1

1.5

2.3

2.5

1.9

1.6

3.5

3.0

3.2

3.2

2)

Did the prostitute's income decrease with the number of times they

# Arrests

Income

they were arrested? Data were taken over a 3 month period

3

4

and income was rounded to the nearest thousand.

2

6

4

4

Write the Null, Alt, construct the scatterplot & write the conclusion.

8

4

10

2

9

3

11

2

14

1