A bus company wanted to know if the number of complaints they received was a function of the number of buses it ran. The company carried out a study comparing the average number of buses per hour for different days and the number of complaints that it received on those days. Here are the results: Number of complaints
52
5252
33
3333
21
2121
23
2323
20
2020
17
1717
14
1414
Avg. number of buses per hour
2.00
2.002, point, 00
2.50
2.502, point, 50
4.25
4.254, point, 25
5.00
5.005, point, 00
5.25
5.255, point, 25
6.25
6.256, point, 25
7.25
7.257, point, 25
All of the scatter plots below display the data correctly, but which one of them displays the data best?
By convention, a good scatter plot uses a reasonable scale on both axes and puts the explanatory variable on the
x
xx-axis.