Question: Draw the scatter plot for the variables. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient. State the hypotheses. Test the significance of the correlation coefficient at a = 0.05 using Table I. Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship.

Forest fires and acres banned. An environmentalist wants to determine the relationships between the numbers (in thousands) of forest fires over the year and the number (in hundred thousands) of acres burned. The data for 8 recent years are shown. Describe the relationship.

Number of fires x 72 69 58 47 84 62 57 45

Number of acres burned y 62 42 19 26 51 15 30 15