Construct a time plot for the U.S. population. What kind of trend do you see? What information can be extracted from this plot?

The following data set shows population of the United States (in million) since 1790,
Year:  1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900
Population:  3.9 5.3 7.2 9.6 12.9 17.1 23.2 31.4 38.6 50.2 63.0 76.2
Year 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Population 92.2 106.0 123.2 132.2 151.3 179.3 203.3 226.5 248.7 281.4 308.7
Construct a time plot for the U.S. population. What kind of trend do you see? What information
can be extracted from this plot?

• ·         The year and population seems positively co-related because population increases when the year increases.

• ·         From this plot we can figure out the growth of total population.