Is the number of games won by a softball team in a season related
to the team batting average? The table below shows the batting average (in thousandths) and the number of games won of 8 teams.
Team | Batting Average | Games Won |
0 | 271 | 42 |
1 | 270 | 46 |
2 | 318 | 41 |
3 | 272 | 45 |
4 | 284 | 42 |
5 | 283 | 45 |
6 | 307 | 42 |
7 | 271 | 41 |
Using games won as the explanatory variable , do the following:
- The correlation coefficient is
- The equation of the least squares line is
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