Please explain 8 Manatees are large gentle slowmoving creat

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8. Manatees are large, gentle, slow?moving creatures found along the coast of Florida. Many
manatees are injured or killed by boats. The following scatterplot shows the number of registered
boats and the number of manatees killed by boats between 1977 and 2009. Describe the direction,
form, and strength of the relationship.

Florida Manatess Killed by Boats 1977-2009 100 90 80 70 6 C 50 40 30 20 10 0 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 Boats registered in Florida (thousands)

Solution

Here, we see a positive, linear, strong relationship.

Positive, as we can see it goes up from left to right.

Linear, as we can clearly see a linear trend.

Strong, as the trend is very clearly seen.