A corporation administers an aptitude test to all new sales representatives. Management is interested in the possible relationship between test scores and the sales representatives’ eventual success. The accompanying table records average weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) and aptitude test scores for a random sample of eight representatives. Construct a scatter plot with weekly sales as the dependent variable and test scores as the independent variable.Weekly sales 10  12  28  24  18  16  15  12Test score      55  60  85  75  80  85  65  60

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A corporation administers an aptitude test to all new sales representatives. Management is interested in the possible relationship between test scores and the sales representatives’ eventual success. The accompanying table records average weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) and aptitude test scores for a random sample of eight representatives. Construct a scatter plot with weekly sales as the dependent variable and test scores as the independent variable.

Weekly sales 10  12  28  24  18  16  15  12
Test score      55  60  85  75  80  85  65  60

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