Consider that the table below gives the median household income for whites and blacks in various years.

Median Household Income

Year	Whites	Blacks
1981	38,954	21,859
1985	40,614	24,163
1990	42,622	25,488
1995	42,871	26,842
2000	46,910	31,690
2001	46,261	30,625
2002	46,119	29,691
2003	45,631	29,645
2005	48,554	30,858

(a) Let us make a scatter plot of these data, with x represent the median household income for whites and y represent the corresponding median household income for blacks.

Enter the data from the above table in the lists of a graphing utility.

The figure below shows a partial list of the data points.

The scatter plot of all the data points from the table is shown below: