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The document presents data on the winning times for women's 400m freestyle swimming from 1948 to 2008. It includes a table with the year, labeled year(x), and corresponding winning time in seconds. A scatter plot is generated from this data with year(x) on the x-axis and winning time on the y-axis. The plot shows winning time is decreasing until the 11th year and then exhibits an increasing and decreasing pattern.

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GVDGV

The document presents data on the winning times for women's 400m freestyle swimming from 1948 to 2008. It includes a table with the year, labeled year(x), and corresponding winning time in seconds. A scatter plot is generated from this data with year(x) on the x-axis and winning time on the y-axis. The plot shows winning time is decreasing until the 11th year and then exhibits an increasing and decreasing pattern.

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737172-19-49E AID:176115 | 16/08/2019

Labeling the year as 1,2,3…16 in the below data for winning time for women 400m free
style swimming event.

Winning
Year Year(x) time
1948 1 317.8
1952 2 312.1
1956 3 294.6
1960 4 290.6
1964 5 283.3
1968 6 271.8
1972 7 259.04
1976 8 249.89
1980 9 248.76
1984 10 247.1
1988 11 243.85
1992 12 247.18
1996 13 247.25
2000 14 245.8
2004 15 245.34
2008 16 243.22

Using excel plot the above points where Year(x) is taken an x –axis and winning time is
taken on y axis. Then under insert tab add select scatter option in chart type to get the
below graph.

Winning time
350
340
330
320
310
Winning Time

300
290
280
270 Winning time
260
250
240
230
220
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Year

Winning time is decreasing until 11th year post that there is increase and decrease pattern.
This line is a good fit for linear regression line.

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