A college student is interested in whether apartments with larger square footage tend to have higher rent prices. She calls several apartment buildings to inquire about the rent price and square footage of the apartments they have available Identify the explanatory and response variables. Which variable should be on which axis of a scatterplot this student creates ?
A) Rent price is the explanatory variable and square feet is the response variable. Rent price should be placed on th horizontal axis of the scatterplot and square feet on the vertical axis.
B) Rent price is the explanatory variable and square feet is the response variable. Rent price should be placed on the vertical axis of the scatterplot and square feet on the horizontal axis. C)Square feet is the explanatory variable and rent price is the response variable. Square feet should be placed on the horizontal axis of the scatterplot and rent price on the vertical axis .
D)Square feet is the explanatory variable and rent price is the response variable . Square feet should be placed on the vertical axis of the scatterplot and rent price on the horizontal axis
D) A scatterplot is not an appropriate graphical display for this data set .
Ans. C. Square feet is the explanatory variable and rent price is the response variable. Square feet should be placed on the horizontal axis of the scatterplot and rent price on the vertical axis.
