Question: Problem 10)

A certain psychologist counsels people who are getting divorced. A random sample of six of her clients provided the following data. In the table below, x = number of years of courtship before marriage and y = number of years of marriage before divorce.

a) Draw the scatter diagram for the data.

b) From the scatter diagram would you say that r is closer to 1, 0, or -1?

c) Find r (correlation coefficient)