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Explain what it means to have a correlation in a scatter plot.

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It’s because it shows how much one variable is affected by another.
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Answer:The relationship between the two variables is known as correlation. If the points are close to each other and making a straight line in the scatter plot, then two variables are said to have a high correlation. If the points are equally distributed in the scatter plot, the correlation is said to be low, or zero.

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