The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) require government agencies to produce annual performance and accounting reports (PARS) each year. A research team at George Mason University evaluated the quality of the PARS for 24 government agencies (The Public Manager, summer 2008). Evaluation scores ranged from 12 (lowest) to 60 (highest). The PARS evaluation scores for two consecutive years are shown in the next table.

a. Construct a scatter plot for the data. Do you detect a trend in the data?
b. Based on the graph, identify one or two agencies that had greater than expected PARS evaluation scores for year 2.

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