SOLUTION: Please help this is a part of Statistical Reasoning and I am completely lost. Create a scatter plot using the following data. Tell whether the linear correlation is positive,

Question 605299: Please help this is a part of Statistical Reasoning and I am completely lost.

Create a scatter plot using the following data. Tell whether the linear correlation is positive, negative, or neither. Let t be the horizontal axis and n the vertical axis.
t -6 -4 3 0 -2 -3 -1 1 2 -5
n 10 5 -7 -2 2 3 0 -5 -6 7

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When we plot the values as ordered pairs, we get the following scatter plot

Notice that the points closely fall on a line that slopes downward (as you read it from left to right). So the linear correlation is negative.

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