2. This question uses a different data set to explore the relationship between the number of years of education a person has had and their wage (in dollars per hour.) You should base your answers on the scatterplot provided.

a) Based on the scatterplot, what is the lowest hourly wage earned by any person in the data set? How many years of education does the person earning the lowest hourly wage have?

b) Based on the scatterplot, would you say that the correlation between these variables is positive or negative? Explain.

30 00- 25 00- O O 0 0 0 20 00- O O OCD O Wage (dollars per hour) 15 00- 00 0 0 00 00 00 0 0 00 O O 0 0 0 10.00- O OO OO OO0900 0 0 00 00 00 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 500- 0 0 (0 0 03 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Number of years of education