Asked by D4VD

Caitlyn recorded the height of each plant after she exposed each plant to a set amount of darkness daily. The scatterplot shows her results after 2 weeks of exposing each plant to the amount of darkness.

A graph titled Plant Growth has hours of darkness on the x-axis, and height of plant (inches) on the y-axis. Points are grouped closely together and decrease. Point (17, 12) is above the cluster.

Which statement about the scatterplot is true?
The point (17, 12) could cause the description of the data set to be overstated.
The point (17, 12) could cause the description of the data set to be understated.
The point (17, 12) shows that there is no relationship between the number of hours of darkness and the height of the plant.
Although (17, 12) is an extreme value, it should be part of the description of the relationship between number of hours of darkness and the height of the plant.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The correct statement is: "The point (17, 12) could cause the description of the data set to be understated."

Reason: the other points show a clear decreasing (negative) relationship; the (17,12) point lies above that trend and would weaken (make less steep / lower the correlation of) the negative association, so the true relationship could be stronger than it appears with that outlier included.