Suppose you were to collect data for follwong pir of variables, gasoline: Number

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Suppose you were to collect data for follwong pir of variables, gasoline: Number of miles driven since your last fill up, gallons of gas remaining in your tank. You want to make a scatterplot. Which variable would you use as the explanatory variable?

A.) Number of miles driven since your last fill up

B.) Gallons of gas remaining in your tank

Which variable would you use as the reponse varaible?

A.) Number of miles driven since your last fill up

B.) Gallons of gas remaining in your tank

Would you expect to see a positive or negative association?

A.) Positive

B.) Negative

C.) Neither

Explanation / Answer

The number of miles driven will be used as an explanatory variable.

Gallons of gas remaining in your tank will be used as a response variable.

To predict the gallons remaining in the tank based on the miles driven since filling up.

Scatterplot: will be negative, linear

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