Question

How do you know if a scatter plot shows a nonlinear relationship?Question content area bottomPart 1Choose the correct answer below.A.The points in the scatter plot form a line.B.The points in the scatter plot form a curve or circle.C.A trend line can be drawn to shown the association.D.There is no association between the data points.

Answer 1

Answer: We have to pick one out of the given statements that Indicates that the scatter plot is non-linear, a linear relation relationship means that there is a fixed ratio between change in x and change in y, if it isn't the case, then we are dealing with non-linear relationship:

(a) The points on the scatter plot form a line:

It seems that we can fit a line through these points and therefore can model it with the equation of line such as:

`y(x)=mx+b`

In short, the relationship is linear, and this is not the answer. from this we can conclude that