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Use a calculator to find the correlation coefficient of the data set.

у
2
15
6
13
7
8
12
X
15
13
9
8
5
A. -0.909
B. 0.909
C. 0.953
D. -0.953

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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.

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