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- Hiro's elevator: make the residual plot for trips of different numbers of floors.
- Sofia's cookie dough: fit a line and make the residual plot for cookies by cups of flour.
- Commute times: make and read the residual plot for classmates at different distances.
- Kofi's guitar prices: read a residual plot with no pattern and what it means.
- Sketch the residual plot you expect in each situation and name its shape.
- Ben's basil plants: use the residual plot to judge whether a line fits.
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Making and reading residual plots: the lesson ›More Chapter 13 worksheets: Two-variable statistics
- 13.1Fitting linear and exponential models with technology
- 13.2Predicting with a regression line, and extrapolation
- 13.3Interpreting a residual
- 13.4Making and reading residual plots
- 13.5The correlation coefficient
- 13.6Properties of the correlation coefficient
- 13.7Observational studies and experiments
- 13.8Correlation is not causation: lurking and confounding variables
- 13.9Describing a scatter plot
- 13.10Line of best fit
- 13.11Conditional relative frequencies