Question

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

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

D

Explanation:

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

Answer 2

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

Going from left to right, we see that the points are moving down. This means that the hours working are going up and the video game hours are going down.