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Question 3

Sarah has data about the number of hours 10 students spent revising and the marks they achieved in a test. She was asked to display the data on a scatter graph. Here is her answer.

Sarah's graph shows 'Marks' on the y-axis and 'Hours Spent Revising' on the x-axis. The marks on the y-axis are labelled 0,10,20,30,50,60,70,800, 10, 20, 30, 50, 60, 70, 800,10,20,30,50,60,70,80. She has drawn a straight line of best fit that is horizontal across the graph.

Hours Spent RevisingTest Mark
218
425
532
845
1048
1260
1565
1878
2082
2290

Sarah has plotted the points accurately.

Write down two things that are wrong with her answer.

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