Question

In a scatterplot of this data, where renewable energy consumption in the year 20002000 is plotted along the x-axis and renewable energy consumption in the year $2010$ is plotted along the y-axis for each of the given energy sources, how many data points would be above the line $y=x$ ?

• A. $1$
• B. $2$
• C. $3$
• D. $4$

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

$3$

For the points, in the scatter plot of renewable energy consumption in $2010$ along $y$-axis versus renewable energy consumption in $2000$ along $x$-axis to be above the line $y=x$, the value of $y$-coordinate must be more than the corresponding value of $x$-coordinate i.e $y>x$

This is seen for biofuels, geothermal, and wind energy but not for hydroelectric and wood energy.

Hence, we get $3$ data points above the line $y=x$.