Making and Reading Residual Plots Worksheet with Answer Key

What's on the worksheet

1. Hiro times the elevator in his building as it carries him up from the lobby (made-up data).
2. Sofia makes five batches of cookie dough with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cups of flour and counts the cookies from each (made-up data):
3. Hannah asks six classmates, who live 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 km from school, how many minutes their trip to school took this morning (made-up data), as…
4. Kofi's least-squares line predicts the price of a used electric guitar from its age in years (made-up data).
5. In each situation a least-squares line is fitted.
6. Ben gives seven basil plants, A to G, different amounts of liquid fertilizer each week and records how much each grows in a month (made-up data).