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What's a Scatter Plot?

What is a scatter plot?

Summary

  1. Points are also called 'ordered pairs'
  2. Points on a scatter plot often represent data
  3. The coordinate plane is the intersection of the x- and y-axes
  4. In this example, the points represent the days and amount of time that someone has spent on Virtual Nerd
  5. The x-axis represents the days that someone is on Virtual Nerd
  6. The y-axis represents the the number of hours spent on Virtual Nerd for a particular day

Notes

    1. An ordered pair is a point written in the form (x,y)
    2. 'x' is the x-coordinate and 'y' is the y-coordinate
    3. An ordered pair gives a point's location on the coordinate plane
    1. Often the points you plot in a scatter plot will be data points from real-world data
    1. We can plot the ordered pairs on this coordinate plane
    1. Make sure to label your axes, so that you know what each coordinate represents!