Strength of Correlation Answers

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Which table shows a negative correlation?

A
A 2-row table with 6 columns. The first row is labeled x with entries 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12. The second row is labeled y with entries negative 8, negative 5, negative 6, negative 3, negative 2, negative 1.
Option A
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Option
Option B
C
Option
Option C
D
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Option D
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The scatterplot shows the time it takes for a new hot plate to boil various amounts of water, and one lab group’s attempt at a line of best fit.

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A
The line of best fit is reasonable because it does not go through any points.
B
The line of best fit is not reasonable because it has more points below it than above it.
C
The line of best fit is not reasonable because it does not go through any points.
D
The line of best fit is reasonable because it goes through the largest number of points.
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Mr. Palmer does an experiment to investigate the effects of distractions on studying and learning. He gives each participant a line with 10 words to memorize in 5 minutes. Some of the participants are interrupted during the 5 minutes with text messages from friends. The graph shows the number of words remembered after 5 minutes and the number of text messages sent to the participants as distractions.

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A
4
B
5
C
6
D
7
11

Teddy is preparing to sell some wooden blocks at a garage sale. Before pricing individual bags of blocks, he decides to determine the approximate number of blocks per pound by researching the weights of different sets of blocks. The graph shows his data.

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A
10
B
20
C
30
D
40
12

Melinda works at a cafe. Each day that she works, she records x, the total dollar amount of her customers’ bills and then y, her total daily wages. The table shows her data for 2 weeks.

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A
$18
B
$26
C
$36
D
$40
15

Raquel throws darts at a coordinate grid centered at the origin. Her goal is to create a line of darts. Her darts actually hit the coordinate grid at (–5, 0), (1, –3), (4, 5), (–8, –6), (0, 2), and (9, 6). Which equation best approximates the line of best fit of the darts?

A
y = 0.6x + 0.6
B
y = 0.1x + 0.8
C
y = 0.8x + 0.1
D
y = 0.5x + 0.6
16

Payton collected data to show the relationship between the number of hours he practices and the number of errors he makes when playing a new piece of music. The table shows his data.Which is the approximate slope of the line of best fit for the data?

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A
–5.5
B
–4.5
C
–2.0
D
–1.0
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A line of best fit is f(x) ≈ −0.86x + 13.5 for the set of points in the table.

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A
−5
B
−2
C
3
D
12

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