Handling Data - Scatter Diagrams

Question 1 GRADE D
Joe has twelve cars for sale.
The scatter diagram shows the ages and prices of the twelve cars.

Joe buys five more cars to sell.

The table lists the ages and prices of these cars.
Age in
years
Price in

3000 2500 3750 1500 2250

(a) Plot this information on the scatter graph.

(b) Describe the correlation between the ages of these seventeen cars and their prices.
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Handling Data - Scatter Diagrams

Question 2 GRADE D
The table lists the number of cats and the number of mice in a square mile.
Number of cats
90
90
70
50
40
90
10
20
20

Number of mice
100
120
150
250
300
500
500
350
400

(a) Draw a scatter graph to show the information in the table.

(b) Describe the correlation between the number of cats and the number of mice..

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Handling Data - Scatter Diagrams

Question 3 GRADE C

The table lists the weights of twelve books and the number of pages in each one.
Number of pages
80
155
100
125
145
90
140
160
135
100
115
165

Weight (g)
160
330
200
260
320
180
290
330
260
180
230
350

This information is presented below as a scatter graph.

(a) Draw a line of best fit on your scatter graph.

(b) Use your line of best fit to estimate
i) the number of pages in a book of weight 280 g,
ii) the weight, in grams, of a book with 110 pages.

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Handling Data - Scatter Diagrams

Question 4 GRADE C
The table shows the number of units of electricity used in heating a house on ten
different days and the average temperature for each day.
Average temperature (C)

10

12

Units of electricity used

28

38

41

34

31

31

22

25

23

22

(a) Complete the scatter graph to show the information in the table.
The first 6 points have been plotted for you.
(2 marks)

(b) Describe the correlation between the number of units of electricity

used and the average temperature.
(1 mark)
(c) Draw a line of best fit on your scatter graph

(2 marks)

(d) Use your line of best fit to estimate

i) the average temperature if 35 units of electricity are used,
ii) the units of electricity used if the average temperature is 7 0C. (2 marks)

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