Question

Use the information in the table below to make a scatter plot. 1 3 5 7 9 11 1 9 28 65 125 216 You can make your scatter plot by hand and upload an image or you can plot the points on a tool like this and share the graph or image of the graph. Does the data fit a linear model or is there another model that it would better fit?

Answer 1

The data would fit a linear model. However, the data fits an exponential model better .

A linear model would best fit a plot whose data takes a straight line trend rather than a curve. From the graph of the data obtained , the first data point at the bottom doesn't perfectly align with the straight pattern of the other data points.

This means that while the data fits a linear model, an exponential model would fit the data better.

A graphical example of an exponential model is also attached .