Question

Absolutely stumped! Please help! :(

You suspect that the spiciness of food served in a restaurant is positively correlated with number of soft drinks ordered. What would be your next steps to test your hypothesis?

Plot all data together on a dot plot to assess if there is any visible correlation between the data sets.
Observe several cases of people ordering food of varying spice-levels and number of soft drinks ordered.
Pick two points on the dot plot and find a line of best fit.
Find the correlation coefficient to see how well the line of best fit actually fits the data.

Answer 1

I know for a fact it's not A, since I got it wrong the first time I submitted it.

Answer 2

k just gonna give my two cents. no idea if it's anywhere near right.

so in the question it's saying that you suspect spiciness & soft drinks are correlated... cool... whatever... then options 1, 3, and 4 are all dealing with the data you collected. but where did you get this data from? nowhere, right?

imo the next step would be choice 2: observing. from observing people (weird), you collect data, and you can then move on to plotting and analyzing this data.

Answer 3

That's what I was thinking too, and it turned out to be correct. Thanks :)

Answer 4

oh yay cool