Month 1 2 3
1 54 5 63
2 64 32 55
3 73 54 48
4 77 57 50
5 75 48 52
6 68 36 55
7 57 5 59
8 46 -35 66
9 37 -53 72
10 34 -57 73
11 36 -48 73
12 45 -25 70
13 54 5 63

 
Enter this data into Excel and create a scatterplot of Month vs. Temp for all 3 cities on the same axes.

Questions to consider:

• What is the general pattern of the temperatures throughout the year? WHat do these trends tell you about the location of these cities?

• Consider the location of the following three cities.
  Buenos Aries
  Washington DC
  Verkhoyansk Russia
  
  Use the World Atlas to locate the three cities. Consider the temperature trends for each city throughout the year. WHich city corresponds to which data set? Justify your conclusion.

• What mathematical model (function) could be used to make estimates and predictions for future years based on this data?
• How are the coefficients in this function model related to the data for each city?