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QuizMultiple Choice
Transforming to Achieve Linearity — Unit test
Question 12 • DRHS GA-Statistical Reasoning
A health organization collects data on hospitals in a large metropolitan area. The scatterplot shows the relationship between two variables the organization collected: the number of beds each hospital has available and the average number of days a patient stays in the hospital (mean length of stay).
Answer
A
Hospitals with more beds cause longer lengths of stay.B
The size of the hospital does not appear the have an influence on length of stay.C
More complex medical cases are often taken by larger hospitals, which increases the lengths of stay for larger hospitals.D
More complex medical cases are often taken by larger hospitals, which decreases the lengths of stay for larger hospitals.