Option (A) the point (8, 17) can cause the description of the data set to be overstated is the correct answer.
What is scatter plot?
A scatter plot is a type of data visualization that shows the relationship between different variables. Scatter plots are used to plot data points on a horizontal and a vertical axis in the attempt to show how much one variable is affected by another.
For the given situation,
The graph shows the time that some students spent studying and the number of spelling mistakes on an essay test.
In the graph, the point (8,17) is the extreme value. As the mistakes are get reduced as the time increases, 17 mistakes at 8 hours is the extreme value.
Hence we can conclude that option (A) the point (8, 17) can cause the description of the data set to be overstated is the correct answer.
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