Using national surveys, the Pew Research Center has estimated the percent of peo

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Using national surveys, the Pew Research Center has estimated the percent of people who say that religion plays a very important role in their lives. Values for OECD nations (with GDP values in parentheses from the OECD data file) include Australia 21% (43,550), Canada 25% (43,247), France 14% (36,907), Germany 21% (43,332), Greece 35% (25,651), Italy 32% (34,303), Japan 10% (36,315), Spain 22% (32,103), Turkey 71% (18,975), the United Kingdom 18% (36,197), and the United States 59% (53,143). Construct a scatterplot of these values (as y) against GDP. Summarize what you learn, highlighting any apparent outliers.

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The scatterplot will be:

From the scatterplot, we can see that most of the values are clustered in a particular range with no such definite pattern because there is only a slight negative relationship visible from the graph. There is one potential outlier which is the % of Turkey.

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