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Spending and Student Achievement Case



Case Problem Statement: There is some concern that spending may be unnecessarily out of control in many states. Higher education costs lead to higher taxes and residents are concerned there is no benefit in spending more because test scores are not always better just because more money is spent. Is there a relationship between money spent and test scores achieved?

a. The following are numerical and graphical data of the student spending case: The first table was sorted by least spent to most spent and adjacent to that are lowest scores to highest scores. This is a way to look at the data and see if there is any evidence that spending and scores might be related. The scatter diagram shows test scores in relation to money spent.

State Spending
per Pupil ($) Composite
Score State Spending
per Pupil ($) Composite
Score
Utah 3,280 650 California 4,917 580
Mississippi 3,423 582 Hawaii 5,532 580
Alabama 3,777 604 Louisiana......

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