Question: The Prescott Casket Company prides itself on its work. Its motto is “Your sleep of ages begins with us.” Recently Rich Mortimer, the company manager, has become worried that their number of defects has been increasing. Rich said, “Those defects are killing me!” He has collected information on the production and the number of defects for 10 randomly selected hours over the past month. Here is what he found.

By using a single regression, first list the null and research hypotheses, next analyze this information and indicate if Rich Mortimer is correct or not that defects and the rate of casket production are related. Show your work and answer the question.