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On the ACT Science test, recognizing relationships and trends in data means using tables, graphs, and figures to see how measured quantities change together.

A student must tell whether a variable rises, falls, or stays constant as another changes, then match that pattern to a conclusion. Questions point to a figure or table and ask what happens as one quantity increases or which statement the data support. Common traps include mixing up axes, pairing the wrong variables, treating an outlier as the trend, or assuming a cause when the passage only shows a correlation.

Answer choices are short claims about increase, decrease, no clear trend, or a comparison between series.

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