Use the Data Provided in the Table Below to Answer

question 52

Essay

Use the data provided in the table below to answer the question. The table shows city size and annual grocery expenditures for eight families. City size is in thousands and expenditures is in hundreds of dollars.

-Using the data from the table, sketch a scatterplot (by hand or with the aid of technology)of the data. Describe any association that you see. Would it be appropriate to fit a linear model to this data?

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