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Exercises: Reading and Building Scatter Plots

Work through each section in order. When you read a scatter plot, look at the whole cloud of points, not one point at a time. Use the words positive, negative, linear, nonlinear, cluster, and outlier to describe what you see.

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Fluency Practice

A scatter plot with an upward band of points and one point far above the band
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The scatter plot shows a clear upward trend, but one point sits far above and away from the rest. What is that lone point called?