Mathematics 0580 · IGCSE · Scatter diagrams

Scatter diagrams — practice question

The scatter diagram plots the number of rooms against the number of people for eight buildings. The horizontal axis runs from 0 to 80 and is labelled "Number of people". The vertical axis runs from 0 to 70 and is labelled "Number of rooms". A number of points have been plotted.
(a)[1]

One building has 67 rooms. State how many people live in this building.

(b)[1]

A different building contains 42 people and 33 rooms. Plot this point on the scatter diagram.

(c(i))[1]

On the scatter diagram, draw a line of best fit.

(c(ii))[1]

In another building there are 45 people. Estimate the number of rooms in this building.

(d)[1]

Which kind of correlation does the scatter diagram display?

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