Chapter 12: Q.44 (page 718)
Hand draw a smooth curve on the graph that shows the flow of the data.
Short Answer
The scatter plot is shown below:

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Chapter 12: Q.44 (page 718)
Hand draw a smooth curve on the graph that shows the flow of the data.
The scatter plot is shown below:

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Due to erosion, a river shoreline is losing several thousand pounds of soil each year. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of soil lost per year is .
How many pounds of soil does the shoreline lose in a year?
Use the following information to answer the next five exercises. A random sample of ten professional athletes produced the following data where is the number of endorsements the player has and is the amount of money made (in millions of dollars).
draw the line of best fit on the scatter plot
Amelia plays basketball for her high school. She wants to improve to play at the college level. She notices that the number of points she scores in a game goes up in response to the number of hours she practices her jump shot each week. She records the following data:
| X (hours practicing jump shot) | Y (points scored in a game) |
| 5 | 15 |
| 7 | 22 |
| 9 | 28 |
| 10 | 31 |
| 11 | 33 |
| 12 | 36 |
A specialty cleaning company charges an equipment fee and an hourly labor fee. A linear equation that expresses the total amount of the fee the company charges for each session is .
What are the independent and dependent variables?
Does the scatter plot appear linear? Strong or weak? Positive or negative?

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