Scatter Diagram

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Precalculus
Michael Sullivan
Edition 10
Chapter 3, Section 3.2

Examine the scatter diagram and determine whether the type of relation is linear or nonlinear.

Notice that all the points almost form a straight line. I say this relation is linear.

[Eigenvalue]

It resembles more of a rational function. For reference, here is an image of a rational function (the image pertains [tex]\frac{8}{x}[/tex]; it is from another question that I did)