# Combining lists to create points to plot with ListLinePlot [closed]

I would like to make a ListLinePlot using these lists:

distance = {0, 5, 25, 45, 65, 85, 105, 125, 145, 150};
trial1 = {0, 0.14, .49, 0.94, 1.39, 1.85, 2.43, 3.08, 3.61, 4.31};


and I would like to get something that looks like this:

{{0, 0}, {5, 0.14}, {25, 0.49}, ... ,{150, 4.76}}


Is there a function or efficient, convenient method I can employ to quickly combine the two lists and form a list shown above instead of painstakingly and inefficiently creating an entirely new list?

For those of you confused about my uneven lists above, I cleaned it up after many many months.

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• Look up Transpose[]. – J. M. is away Aug 30 '15 at 5:34
• Your lists don't have the same length. – march Aug 30 '15 at 6:28
• You can do it in this way: Thread@{distance, trial1}. Please obey the hint from @march! – user31001 Aug 30 '15 at 9:09

This problem can be solved with a one-liner.

ListLinePlot[Thread[{distance, trial1[[;; -2]]}]]


Of course if the data are trimmed before plotting than

ListLinePlot[Thread[{distance, trial1}]]


will do.

• Yet another way: ListLinePlot[Select[Flatten[{distance, trial1}, {{2}, {1}}], Length[#] == 2 &]] – J. M. is away Aug 30 '15 at 17:38
• Thank you, m_goldberg for the help! This is very helpful. A follow-up question: how would you create a line or curve of best fit for the graph? – michaelchang64 Aug 30 '15 at 19:01
• @GumpyCede. Follow-up questions should be put to the whole community, either by editing the original question or (better) by asking a new question. But I'll give you a hint -- follow this link and click on the links there that mention models or regression. – m_goldberg Aug 30 '15 at 20:51

I removed the last element of trail1 as per comment by @march. Lookup this site: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16513010/how-to-combine-two-lists-to-plot-coordinate-pairs

distance = {0, 5, 25, 45, 65, 85, 105, 125, 145, 150};

trial1 = {0, 0.14, 0.49, 0.94, 1.39, 1.85, 2.43, 3.08, 3.61, 4.31};

Partition[Riffle[distance, trial1], 2]

(* {{0, 0}, {5, 0.14}, {25, 0.49}, {45, 0.94}, {65, 1.39}, {85, 1.85},
{105, 2.43}, {125, 3.08}, {145, 3.61}, {150, 4.31}}*)