Our problem was " Is there a correlation between how experienced you are in basketball and how many shots you make from the foul line?" A correlation is another word for a relationship between two objects.

Our hypothesis was that the longer you played, the more baskets you made.

Our materials were eight people, four basketballs, official size basketball hoops, and a scattergram to record our data on. To conduct this experiment, we made a scattergram for our data. Then, we collected our data by asking our volunteers how many years they played basketball, if any. We recorded this data onto our scattergram. Last, we tested our hypothesis by having the volunteers shoot from the foul line ten times. We recorded how many they made out of ten on our scattergram.

Our results showed that there was a correlation between how experienced you are and the number of shots you made. There were three people that played for two or more years and they made nine baskets altogether. Five people who never played only made three shots altogether. There were four variables in this experiment that could have affected our results. They were skill, wind, bad day, and health.

In conclusion, there was a positive correlation between the number of baskets made from the foul line and the number of years of basketball experience.

In the future, researchers might first give a clinic on shooting a basketball and then test the participants.