Question 6.40

5. Table 5.7 (page 196) gives the city and highway gas mileages for 13 midsized cars. Omit the hybrid car (Toyota Prius) and make a scatterplot, taking city mileage as the explanatory variable. Describe in words the form, direction, and strength of the relationship between highway mileage and city mileage. (You will revisit these data in Exercise 19.)

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The scatterplot below shows a fairly strong, positive, straight-line relationship.

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