Question

The growing interest in and use of the Internet have forced many companies into considering ways to sell their products on the Web. Therefore, it is of interest to these companies to determine who is using the Web. A statistics practitioner undertook a study to determine how education and Internet use are connected. She took a random sample of 15 adults (20 years of age and older) and asked each to report the years of education they had completed and the number of hours of Internet use in the previous week. These data follow.

Education 11 11 8 13 17 11 11 11
Internet use 10 5 0 14 24 0 15 12
Education 19 13 15 9 15 15 11
Internet use 20 10 5 8 12 15 0

a. Employ a suitable graph to depict the data.
b. Does it appear that there is a linear relationship between the two variables? If so, describe it.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Given the data:

Education : 11 11 8 13 17 11 11 11 19 13 15 9 15 15 11

Internet use 10 5 0 14 24 0 15 12 20 10 5 8 12 15 0

Labeled scatter plot of Education and Internet Use is attached in the picture below.

Yes there appears to be a linear relationship between the two variables (Education and Internet Use) as the data points appears to have an upward trend depicted by the linear trend line in the graph.

The correlation Coefficient value which is measures the degree of linear relationship between education and internet use is 0.7048