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Why do we use scatter plots for most data in Physical Science? Question 1 options: because the teacher said to use scatter plots because scatter plots show 100% of the data like a pie because scatter plots show the relationship between the independent and dependent variables because scatter plots show data for categories that do not overlap

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scatter plots show the relationship between the independent and dependent variables

Step-by-step explanation:

A scatter plot is a graph which shows two variables plotted along two axes (usually the x and y axes). Scatter plots are useful in establishing any form of correlation between the dependent and independent variables in any study.

Correlation simply means the degree of relationship between variables, that is, how much does one variable affect the other? When scatter plots are almost a straight line graph, there is a high correlation between the variables. When the points in a scatter plot are isolated, there is little (sometimes zero) correlation between the variables.

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