Suppose you were to collect data for the following pair of variables, all elementary-school students: weight, score on a reading test. You want to make a scatterplot. Which variable would you use as the explanatory variable? What would be the response variable? Would you expect to see a positive or negative association or neither?

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Suppose you were to collect data for the following pair of variables, all elementary-school students: weight, score on a reading test. You want to make a scatterplot. Which variable would you use as the explanatory variable? What would be the response variable? Would you expect to see a positive or negative association or neither?

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