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Question 8 of 9

Use a calculator to find the correlation coefficient of the data set.
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у
2
15
6
13
7.

9
8
on 0
12 5
O A. -0.909
OB. 0.909
Ο Ο Ο
O C. 0.953
D. -0.953

Answer 1

Actual data table :

X __ y

2 15

6 13

7 9

8 8

12 5

Answer:

0.953

Explanation:

The question isnt well formatted :

The actual data:

X __ y

2 15

6 13

7 9

8 8

12 5

Using a correlation Coefficient calculator, the correlation Coefficient obtained by fitting the data is 0.953 which depicts a strong linear correlation between the x and y variable. This shows that the value of y increases with a corresponding increase in x values and vice versa.