Homework

When studying crime levels among universities around the country, a scientists found the following data

x= 12.5, 30.0, 24.5, 14.3, 7.5, 27.7, 16.2, 20.1

y= 26, 73, 39, 23, 15, 30, 15, 25

Let x be students enroll (in thousands), and y the number of burglaries at the given university campus.

  1. Make a scatter diagram, adjust aesthetics so the figure follows publication guidelines.

  2. Display in the plot the correlation coefficient.

  3. Would you say the correlation is low, moderate, or high? positive or negative?

  4. Was it significant?

Place the figure and your responses in a Word document and email it as a homework. Send a nice looking document.