Question

A school attendance clerk wants to determine if there is a relationship between the number of times a student arrives to school late and the distance the student lives from the school. The clerk gathered data for the month of October and made the graph shown below.

Which statement BEST describes the data?

There is no clear relationship between the number of times students arrive late and the distances they live from school.

Students who arrived late more than six times live the shortest distances from the school.

Students who arrived late more than six times live more than one mile from the school.

Students who arrived late more than six times live the farthest distances from the school.

Answer 1

looking at the graph, there is no clear direction or association

Explanation:

Answer 2

There is no clear relationship between the number of times students arrive late and the distances they live from school.

Explanation:

By looking at the graph, there is no clear direction or association that the graph has. Therefore, there is no clear relationship between the variables being compared.