Question

The table shows children’s ages and the number of servings of vegetables the children ate each week.

(a) Create a scatter plot of the data.
(b) Do the points appear to follow a linear pattern? If so, is the correlation positive or negative?

Answer 1

Part A: View attachment 1

Part B: View attachment 2.

No, the points do not follow a linear (a straight line) pattern. The correlation is negative.

Answer 2

Answer with explanation:

The table that shows children's ages and number of serving of vegetables the children ate each week is given by:

Age Serving of vegetables

15 6

7 32

8 32

9 30

11 20

3 16

4 22

5 26

6 29

10 27

10 24

12 17

13 10

The scatter plot is attached to the answer.

Clearly by looking at the scatter plot we see that we get a linear scatter plot also, the correlation is negative, since, we get a trend line with a negative slope.