Problem $03-07$ Algo $($Gestalt Principles$)$

Question $7$ of $16$

A certain company provides marketing analytics consulting for clients. For one of its clients, the company has been asked to perform a market segmentation study for a business client that provides auditing services to manufacturing customers. The client believes there are two variables of importance that should be used to group similar customers into clusters: Yearsfof Service with the Client and Total Assets. The company plans to use a clustering algorithm to group similar customers into different clusters, but before applying the algorithm, the company creates a simple scatter chart to plot each customer based on their Years of Service with the Client and Total Assets. The scatter chart created by the company follows.

Market Segmentation Analysis of Client's Customers

$($a$)$ Based on the Gestalt principle of proximity, how many different groups of customers are shown in the scatter chart? groups