- The data below represent the number of registered boats in Florida and the numbers of manatee fatalities from encounters with boats in Florida for each of several recent years.
Table 1 – Number of Boats and Manatee Fatalities
| Number of Boats | 99 | 99 | 97 | 95 | 90 | 90 | 87 | 90 | 90 |
| Manatee Fatalities | 92 | 73 | 90 | 97 | 83 | 88 | 81 | 73 | 68 |
- Construct a scatterplot using number of boats as the explanatory variable and manatee fatalities as the response variable.
- How would you describe the association between number of boats and manatee fatalities, based on your scatterplot?
