A marketing research firm would like to display the relationship between a family’s weekly food costs and the number of family members living in the household. The following table shows the monthly food costs and the number of family members for 16 families. These data can also be found in Excel file food costs.xlsx.
People Costs ($) People Costs ($)
4 926 6 1,263 5 1,155 3 1,023 3 962 8 1,265 4 909 3 1,114 4 1,084 7 1,322 2 755 2 937 4 949 5 962 4 1,000 3 829 Construct a scatter plot using these data. Describe the relationship between the number of household members and the family’s monthly food costs.

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