An investigation into the relationship between height and weight at Mayfield High school

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2002-04-18

An investigation into the relationship between height and weight at Mayfield High school

Objectives:

a) To investigate the relationship between height and weight across the whole of Mayfield school.

b) To investigate the relationship between height and weight for boys and girls across the whole of Mayfield school.

c) To investigate the relationship between height and weight with age (each year group), for boys and girls.

Expectations:

For a)

I expect that the investigation of height and weight across the whole of Mayfield School will show a general pattern, this pattern being that as a child's height increases so does their weight. However, I also expect that for any given height that I will find a wide variation in weight.

For b)

I expect that an investigation into the height and weight of boys and girls will be as follows. Boys who get taller will also become heavier. Also I think the girls will follow this general pattern. But of course there will be a few that don't fit this pattern (anomalous data is expected).

For c)

I expect that height and weight will have a similar relationship