The scatterplot below shows the number of hours that some high school students spend on working and on video games.

Question

A graph title Working and Video games has weekly working hours on the x-axis and weekly hours of video games on the y-axis. Points are grouped together and decrease.

Which statement about the scatterplot is true?
In general, the number of hours spent working does not affect the number of hours spent on video games.
In general, the amount of weekly time spent working is equal to the amount of weekly time spent on video games.
As the amount of time spent working increases, the amount of time spent on video games increases.
As the number of hours spent working increases, the amount of time spent on video games decreases.

Answer 1

Based on your description of the scatterplot, the statement that is true is:

As the number of hours spent working increases, the amount of time spent on video games decreases.

This interpretation is consistent with your note that points are grouped together and decrease, suggesting an inverse relationship between the hours spent working and the hours spent on video games.