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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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A scatter plot whose points rise from the lower left to the upper right
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Look at the scatter plot. As you move from left to right, the cloud of points generally goes up. What direction is the trend?