The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 4 - Scatterplots and Correlation - Chapter 4 Exercises - Page 124: 4.42d

Answer

The scatter plot is below.

Work Step by Step

We use a program that calculates the value of r based on the values of the data points. Then, we make a curved path like the one above, and we continue to adjust the values until the value of r is .7.
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