In the 2009 stress tests applied to the nation€™s biggest banks, the U.S. government determined that 10 of them needed a greater cushion of capital in order to absorb losses in a worst-case economic scenario. The banks, the bailout they received, and the additional cushion they were deemed to need are as shown below.

a. Draw a scatter diagram representing these data.
b. Using the €œeyeball€ method, fit a straight line to the data.
c. Does there appear to be any relationship between the variables? If so, is the relationship direct or inverse?

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x Bailout Receivec y Added Cash Cushion Needed Bank Bank of America Wells Fargo GMAC Citigroup Regions SunTrust KeyCorp Morgan Stanley Fifth Third Bancorp PNC $45.0 billion 533.9 billion 25.0 5.0 50.0 3.5 4.9 2.5 10.0 3.4 7.6 13.7 11.5 5.5 2.5 2.2 1.8 0.6