Question

Do larger universities tend to have more property crime? University crime statistics are affected by a variety of factors. The surrounding community, accessibility given to outside visitors, and many other factors influence crime rate. Let x be a variable that represents student enrollment (in thousands) on a university campus, and let y be a variable that represents the number of burglaries in a year on the university campus. A random sample of n = 8 universities in California gave the following information about enrollments and annual burglary incidents.

Make a scatter diagram of the data. Then visualize the line you think best fits the data.

x	13.7	29.0	24.5	14.3	7.5	27.7	16.2	20.1
y	26	73	39	23	15	30	15	25

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Answer 1

Copy and paste the data into excel sheet

x values will be shown from A2 to A9 and y values from B2 to B9 (data is entered horizontally)

Select the data values, go to insert tab, click on scatter plot

we get the following scatter diagram

Scatter plot is showing that there is positive relationship between the student enrollment (in thousands) on a university campus and number of burglaries in a year on the university campus.

We can see that as the x value increasing on horizontal axis, the corresponding y value is also increasing on the vertical axis.