Answer
The correlations are the same since the percents of salt were multiplied by 10.
The attached screenshot shows the two correlations are the same.
Work Step by Step
The correlations were calculated in Microsoft Excel.
The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition
by Moore, David S.; Notz, William I.; Fligner, Michael A.
Published by
W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10:
146414253X
ISBN 13:
978-1-46414-253-6
Chapter 4 - Scatterplots and Correlation - Chapter 4 Exercises - Page 123: 4.35b
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