Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Manual Book page 185

³ Try-It!é on Your TI.83 Plus or TI.73
You have collected the measurements (in inches) of how far a boy could throw a ball above his
head from age 5 to age 14. The following data was recorded. Create a scatter (Ô) plot based on
these lists, where
Xlist=L
Age in years (L )
1
5
8
9
10
12
14
Enter the Lists for the Statistical Plot
See ³ TIp 6: Using Lists for step-by-step instructions for entering lists of data. Your list editor
should look like this:
Create a Scatter Statistical Plot for L1 and L2
See ³ TIp 7: Creating a Statistical Plot for step-by-step instructions for creating a scatter
statistical plot. Your statistical plot editor and scatter plot (using
Stat Plot Editor
Note: The stat plot editor in the TI-73 looks slightly different.
Topics in Algebra 1
and .
YList= L
1 2
Distance in inches (L
66.9
75.8
77.7
79.9
85.8
91.7
Graph of Plot
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TIp 8: Finding the Best Line of Fit for a Set of Data
)
2
ZoomStat
) should look like this:
³ TIp 8-2