Year 8
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will discuss the benefits are potential problems of truncating axes.
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4 Questions
Q1.
Smoking causes lung cancer. What kind of correlation would you expect to see?
A negative correlation.
No correlation.
Q2.
There is a positive correlation between the number of pets people own, and the number of books people read. Which of these statements is most likely to be true?
Higher pet ownership causes more reading
More reading causes higher pet ownership
Q3.
What correlation would you expect to see between the variables weekly salary and amount spent on food per week?
Negative correlation
No correlation
Q4.
Which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
A higher amount of money spent on food causes a higher salary
A higher amount of money spent on food causes a lower salary
A higher salary causes a lower amount of money spent on food
3 Questions
Q1.
The graph below shows the favourite sport of some pupils in Year 8, how many prefer boxing?
10
4
6
Q2.
Looking at the same graph, is the following statement true or false: "Triple the number of people prefer boxing to athletics"
Impossible to say
True
Q3.
Which statement is true? Select one.
4 more people prefer cricket to boxing
Double the number of people prefer athletics to tennis
Triple the number of people prefer other sports to tennis