L05 Your Turn - Visualizing the Relationship Between Variables

1. This table shows the number of births at a hospital on the first 12 days of a year.
Create a scatter plot to show the data.
What sort of relationship is there between the date and the number of births?

Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Babies 4 7 3 4 5 2 0 3 4 1 5 4
born

2. Sketch a scatter plot that shows each relationship:

a) a strong negative correlation

b) a weak positive correlation

c) no correlation

3. Suppose one variable is the amount of money a family spends on groceries

each week. Which other variable is likely to have a weak positive relationship
with the grocery money variable?

A the amount of money spent on clothes

B the temperature on the days groceries are purchased
C the number of hours the children in the family go to school
D the amount of money spent on magazines