Question

The table below lists the numbers of audience impressions​ (in hundreds of​ millions) listening to songs and the corresponding numbers of albums sold​ (in hundreds of​ thousands). Does it appear that album sales are affected very strongly by the number of audience​ impressions? Use a significance level of α=0.05.

Determine the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.

Determine the correlation coefficient.

Audience Impressions	14	22	28	26	25	27	19	18	28
Albums Sold	10	6	7	5	15	12	16	18	7

Answer 1

as test statistic is not in critical region we cannot conclude that album sales are affected very strongly by the number of audience​ impressions