Question

the table below shows part of the texting skills data collected by the cell phone company. use the table to interpret the axes labels of the scatterplot as either time or texting speed. the y - axis label of the scatterplot is

Explanation:

In a scatter - plot, the independent variable is usually on the \(x\) - axis and the dependent variable is on the \(y\) - axis. Here, time (\(x\) - axis) is the independent variable (we can choose different time values), and texting speed ( \(y\) - axis) is the dependent variable (it depends on the time). Also, looking at the table headers, the second column is "Texting Speed (words per min)" which is a measure that would be represented on the \(y\) - axis.

Answer:

texting speed