Lynn wants to predict how much fuel her car will use based on its speed. She drove her car 100\,\text{km}100km100, start text, k
, m, end text at each of the speeds below, and she measured how much fuel was used at each speed. Her data is summarized in the table below.
Speed (km/hour) 202020 404040 606060 808080 100100100 120120120
Fuel used (liters) 13.013.013, point, 0 8.08.08, point, 0 5.95.95, point, 9 7.07.07, point, 0 8.38.38, point, 3 9.99.99, point, 9
All of the scatter plots below display the data correctly, but which one of them displays the data best?
By convention, a good scatter plot uses a reasonable scale on both axes and puts the explanatory variable on the xxx-axis.
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