Question: Farm Acreage Is there a relationship between the number of farms in a state and the average acreage per farm? A random selection of states across the country, both eastern and western, produced the following results. Can a relationship between these two variables be concluded?

Number of Farms (thousands) x 77 52 20.8 49 28 58.2

Acreage per farm y 347 173 173 218 246 132