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.
0.20
0.99
-0.20
-0.83
-1.01