The scatterplot below shows the number of weeks that students have been in keyboarding class and the number of mistakes that they made on a keyboarding test.

Question

A graph titled Keyboarding mistakes has number of weeks in class on the x-axis and number of mistakes on the y-axis. Points are grouped together and decrease.

Which statement about the scatterplot is true?
As the number of weeks in class increases, the number of keyboarding mistakes decreases.
As the number of weeks in class increases, the number of keyboarding mistakes increases.
Regardless of the number of weeks in class, the number of keyboarding mistakes does not change.
In general, decreased keyboarding mistakes do not affect the number of weeks in class.

Answer 1

The correct statement about the scatterplot is:

As the number of weeks in class increases, the number of keyboarding mistakes decreases.

This conclusion is based on the observation that the points are grouped together and show a negative trend, indicating that with more weeks in class, students tend to make fewer mistakes.