Unit 5, Lesson 19

What a Point in a Scatter Plot Means

Accelerated 7

Practice

1. Problem 1

   Student Task Statement

   Here is a table and a scatter plot that compares points per game to free throw attempts for a basketball team during a tournament.

   player	free throw attempts	points
   player A	5.5	28.3
   player B	2.1	18.6
   player C	4.1	13.7
   player D	1.6	10.6
   player E	3.1	10.4
   player F	1	5
   player G	1.2	5
   player H	0.7	4.7
   player I	1.5	3.7
   player J	1.5	3.5
   player K	1.2	3.1
   player L	0	1
   player M	0	0.8
   player N	0	0.6

   

   1. Circle the point that represents the data for Player E.
   2. What does the point represent?
   3. In that same tournament, Player O on another team scored 14.3 points per game with 4.8 free throw attempts per game. Plot a point on the graph that shows this information.