Scatter plots<span> are similar to line graphs in that they use horizontal and vertical axes to </span>plot<span> data points. However, they </span>have<span> a very specific purpose. </span>Scatter plots<span> show how much one variable is affected by another. The relationship between two variables is called their </span>correlation<span> .</span>
Scatter plots<span> are similar to line graphs in that they use horizontal and vertical axes to </span>plot<span> data points. However, they </span>have<span> a very specific purpose. </span>Scatter plots<span> show how much one variable is affected by another. The relationship between two variables is called their </span>correlation<span> .</span>
What you're seeing here is 12 being multiplied by its reciprocal. 12 * 1/12 = 1. This is an example of a multiplicative inverse; a multiplicative inverse is when you multiply a number by its reciprocal (1 over the number).