Becky is an experienced swimmer. The table contains data on her times in the 100-meter freestyle event for each year over the past six years.

Year Time
(seconds)
1 98
2 101
3 109
4 117
5 119
6 127

Sketch a scatter plot for this data, and then determine which of these numbers is the closest to the correlation coefficient for the data set.

Question

Becky is an experienced swimmer. The table contains data on her times in the 100-meter freestyle event for each year over the past six years.

Year	Time
(seconds)
1	98
2	101
3	109
4	117
5	119
6	127

Sketch a scatter plot for this data, and then determine which of these numbers is the closest to the correlation coefficient for the data set.

anonymous · Answer

0.20
0.99
-0.20
-0.83
-1.01