The Table Below Lists the Scores of Eight Students on a Test

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The table below lists the scores of eight students on a test to measure anxiety,as well as the typical number of cigarettes each person smokes daily.
Scores on the anxiety test can range anywhere from a low of 0 (indicating very low anxiety)to a high of 30 (indicating very high anxiety).

Construct a scatterplot to represent the correlation between smoking and anxiety.Describe the direction of the correlation and give two possible explanations for it.

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