Make a scatter diagram of infmort and income

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In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of mothers lose at least one child before the child's first birthday. Below are data on 36 countries in the region, giving country, infant mortal- ity, per capita income (in U.S. dollars), percentage of births to mothers under 20, percent- age of births to mothers over 40, percentage of births less than two years apart, percentage of married women using contraception, and percentage of women with unmet family planning need (https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_2-02.html).

 

 

Country

 

 

InfMort

 

 

Income

 

% Mom

20

 

% Mom

> 40

 

2 Years Apart

 

Using Contraception

Need Family Planning

Benin Rep

104

933

16

5

17

3

26

Burkina Faso

109

965

17

5

17

5

26

Cameroon

80

1,573

21

4

25

7

20

Central African Rep

102

1,166

22

5

26

3

16

Chad Rep

110

850

21

3

24

1

missing

Côte d'Ivoire

91

1,654

21

6

16

4

28

Eritrea

76

880

15

7

26

4

28

Ethiopia

113

628

14

6

20

6

23

Gabon

61

6,024

22

4

22

12

28

Ghana

61

1,881

15

5

13

13

23

Guinea

107

1,934

22

5

17

4

24

Kenya

71

1,022

18

3

23

32

24

Madagascar

99

799

21

5

31

10

26

Malawi

113

586

21

6

17

26

30

Mali

134

753

21

4

26

5

26

Mozambique

147

861

24

6

19

5

7

Namibia

62

5,468

15

7

22

26

22

Niger

136

753

23

5

25

5

17

Nigeria

71

853

17

5

27

9

18

Rwanda

90

885

9

7

21

13

36

Senegal

69

1,419

14

7

18

8

35

Tanzania

108

501

19

5

17

17

22

Togo

80

1,410

13

6

14

7

32

Uganda

86

650

23

4

28

8

35

Zambia

108

756

30

4

19

14

27

Zimbabwe

60

2,876

32

4

12

50

13

(a) Make a scatter diagram of InfMort and income.

(b) Draw (by eye) the line that appears to best fit the data.

(c) What effect do you suppose that the two outliers have on income?

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