Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Review - Review Exercises - Page 249: 19a

Answer

The scatter diagram suggests that the poorer a school district is, the shorter the school days are.

Work Step by Step

In fact, when the percent of the population that is low income is greater than 50%, the length of the school day is shorter. The problem is that there are only three observations for low income districts greater than 50% and $r=-0.461$ indicates a moderate negative correlation between the percent of the population that is low income and the length of the school day.
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