A Food Company Launches an Advertising Campaign for a High

question 7

Multiple Choice

A food company launches an advertising campaign for a high fibre cereal and wants to claim that high fibre cereals are lower in calories. In order to research this claim, they obtain nutritional information for 34 breakfast cereals including the amount of fibre (in grams) and the number of calories per serving. The data resulted in the following scatterplot. Which statement is true?

• A) The points in the bottom right corner seem to be high-leverage points.
• B) There is a strong positive association between amount of fibre and number of calories per serving.
• C) As the amount of fibre increases so does the number of calories per serving.
• D) There are no unusual observations.
• E) Five points in the bottom part of the scatterplot have low numbers of calories. Thus, they cannot be influential points.

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