Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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Exercise 5 Page 265

Look at the scatter plot. What shape do the points create?

Negative linear relationship

Practice makes perfect
A scatter plot is a graph that shows the relationship between two data sets. Let's begin by reviewing the different relationships between the data.
scattered plot

Now, let's consider the given scatter plot.

scattered plot

We can see that the points lie close to an imaginary line. As the number of ordered T-shirt increases, the cost per T-shirt decreases. Therefore, there is a negative linear relationship.