Unit 5 Review

1. The scatter plot shows the sales of bottled water at a

refreshment booth at the Canadian National
Exhibition in Toronto for different days during a heat
wave one summer.
a. What information does point A represent? What
does point B represent?

b. Describe the correlation.

c. What does the scatter plot show about the

relationship between water sales and
temperature?

2. The scatter plot shows the ages of some tractors and

their values.
a. Identify the independent variable and the
dependent variable.

b. Describe the correlation.

c. Does the scatter plot suggest a relationship

between the age of the tractor and its value?
Explain.

3. Students in Ryan’s social science class collected data to study whether marks scored on a test were
related to the number of TV watched the night before the test. Data was collected for 10 students.

Hours of TV
2 4 0 3 2 2 1 3 1 2
Watched

Test Mark
82 64 84 70 74 76 85 73 94 90
(%)

a. Draw a scatter plot of the data.

b. Do the data show a pattern? If so, describe it.
c. Draw a line of best fit for the data.
d. Determine an equation for your line of best fit.
e. Predict the test score for a student who watched 2.5 hours of TV
4. This scatter plot shows the monthly profit for a car dealership when a certain number of cars are sold.

a. Use the graph to estimate the monthly

profit in a month where 23 cars are sold.

b. Use the graph to estimate the number of

cars sold in a month where the profit is
$67 000.

5. Data is collected on shoe size and heights for men.

Shoe Size 8.5 9.0 9.0 10.0 10.5 10.5 11.0 11.5 12.0 12.5

Height
166 174 169 178 175 183 187 182 190 184
(cm)

a. Draw a scatter plot of the data.

b. Describe the correlation.
c. Draw a line or curve of best fit for the data.
d. Determine the equation of the line of best fit.
e. Predict the shoe size of a man who is 180 cm tall.
f. Predict the height of a man whose shoe size is 17.5.