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.
TeamBatting AverageGames Won
027142
127046
231841
327245
428442
528345
630742
727141
Using games won as the explanatory variable , do the following:
  1. The correlation coefficient is
  2. The equation of the least squares line is

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