The scatterplot and trend line would show a general positive correlation between temperature and money made. As the temperature increases, the sales tend to increase as well.
It would look something like this:
$500 .
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$400 . .
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$300 . . .
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$200 . .
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$100 . .
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80 85 90 95 100
Temperature (degrees)
(The dots represent the data points and the line is the trend line)
Jamila owns an ice cream parlor. She wants to see whether the temperature outside is related to her sales for the day. She collected her data and put it in a chart.
Temperature (degrees) 95
98
85
92
100
86
94
97
Money Made ($) 355 410 200 281 450 230 302 420
Plot the points in a scatterplot and draw a trend line.
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