Question

Given the problem above, with the same data set, scatterplot.xlsx,  the scatter plot suggests a ________ ["linear" OR "nonlinear"] relationship between the dependent and independent variables.

Data:

x	y
45	2358
56	4204
26	287
54	3849
24	925
23	3273
34	-678
45	3748
47	2898
43	1974
32	226

Answer 1

Given the data set,

x	y
45	2358
56	4204
26	287
54	3849
24	925
23	3273
34	-678
45	3748
47	2898
43	1974
32	226

Scatter plot for the given data:

We see that, there is no linear relationship between X and Y, since there is no particular pattern of linearity.

Hence, from the scatter plot, we can say that there is a non-linear relationship between the dependent and independent variables.