Question

Amelia plays basketball for her high school. She wants to improve to play at the college level. She notices that the number of points she scores in a game goes up in response to the number of hours she practices her jump shot each week. She records the following data:

$X$(hours practicing jump shot)	$Y$(points scored in a game)
5	15
7	22
9	28
10	31
11	33
12	36

Construct a scatter plot and state if what Amelia thinks appears to be true.

Short answer

Scatter plot:

Step-by-step solution

Given information

Amelia plays basketball for her high school. She wants to improve to play at the college level. She notices that the number of points she scores in a game goes up in response to the number of hours she practices her jump shot each week. She records the following data:

$x$(hours practicing jump shot)	$y$(points scored in a game)
5	15
7	22
9	28
10	31
11	33
12	36

Explanation

From the given information, the procedure for computing the scatter plot is studied and the graph is given below as follows: