Suppose you are a safety consultant for the Department of Transportation. You are interested in the relationship between the number of miles a trucker drives per year and the number of accidents he or she has per year. You collect the following information from 6 truckers.

(a) Draw a scatter diagram showing the relationship between miles driven and number of accidents.

(b) Is there a direct or an inverse relationship between miles driven and number of accidents?

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Trucker 1 2 3 4 5 56 6 Miles driven 90,000 119,000 87,000 135,000 150,000 92,000 Accidents 3 N 6 5 3