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Determine if there is a significant relationship between advertising costs and sales.

Determine if there is a significant relationship between advertising costs and sales-example-1
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a) See the plot in explanation

b) r = 0.6348. Moderate correlation between the variables

c) Substantial relationship

Explanation

a) Graphing Advertising cost as the x-variable and Sales as the y-variable, the scatter plot of the given values is:

b) Correlating these data points with a line (shown in black in the above diagram), we get the next parameters:

where r is the Pearson correlation coefficient.

Given that r is between 0.4 and 0.7, then there is a moderate correlation between the variables.

c) A moderate correlation indicates that there is a substantial relationship between the variables

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