Question

Jamison's basketball team stood at various distance from the basketball hoop and counted the number of baskets they were able to make in 30 seconds. Identify the outlier in the scatter plot. Write the data point as an (x, y) ordered pair, for example: (12, 3)

Answer 1

(15, 2)

Explanation:

You want the data point that is an outlier in the given scatter plot.

Line of best fit

When the line of best fit is found, the point with the greatest residual (difference from the best-fit line) is the point (15, 2). When that point is removed from the data set, the new best-fit line has a better fit to the rest of the data.

In the attached, the best-fit line is shown in solid blue. When the circled data point is removed, the best fit line becomes the dashed blue line.

The outlier is the point (15, 2).

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