An Analyst Gathers Data on the Number of Hours of Political

question 27

Multiple Choice

An analyst gathers data on the number of hours of political debates watched per week and the sales of antacids. She expects that political debate watching will help explain antacid sales.
In a scatterplot of her data:

• A) hours of political debate watching should be on the horizontal axis.
• B) antacid sales should be on the horizontal axis.
• C) it makes no difference which is horizontal.
• D) a scatterplot is not an appropriate type of graph for these data.

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