Question

Homer notices that he gains more weight if he eats more doughnuts. Fill in the blanks to com the passage about the correlation between weight and doughnutsThere is a _______correlation between the number of doughnuts Homer eats and his weight if Homer wants to lose weight, he should eat_______ doughnuts If Homer graphed this relationship on a scatterplot, an increase on the y axis would lead to________ on the x axis.

Answer 1

Answer:

Homer notices that he gains more weight if he eats more doughnuts. Fill in the blanks to com the passage about the correlation between weight and doughnuts.

There is a __positive_____correlation between the number of doughnuts Homer eats and his weight.  If Homer wants to lose weight, he should eat___less____ doughnuts.  If Homer graphed this relationship on a scatter plot, an increase on the y axis would lead to__an increase______ on the x axis.

Explanation:

According to the question, Homer's doughnut consumption and weight should be graphed so that an increase in the x-axis would lead to an increase in the y-axis.  The x-axis is the independent variable while the y-axis is always the dependent variable and not vice versa.  The number of doughnuts that Homer consumes should be plotted on the x-axis and the weight obtained on the y-axis because the weight depends on the number of doughnuts consumed.