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Let x be the average number of employees in a group health insurance plan, and let y be the average administrative cost as a percentage of claims.

x	3	7	15	32	71
y	40	35	30	27	16

(a) Make a scatter diagram of the data and visualize the line you think best fits the data.

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(b) Would you say the correlation is low, moderate, or strong? positive or negative?

moderate and positivestrong and positive    low and negativestrong and negativemoderate and negativelow and positive

(c) Use a calculator to verify that Σx = 128, Σx² = 6348, Σy = 148, Σy² = 4710, and Σxy = 2815. Compute r. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
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As x increases, does the value of r imply that y should tend to increase or decrease? Explain.

Given our value of r, y should tend to increase as x increases.Given our value of r, y should tend to remain constant as x increases.    Given our value of r, y should tend to decrease as x increases.Given our value of r, we cannot draw any conclusions for the behavior of y as x increases.

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ans a ) using minitab>Graph>scatterplot

b ) the correlation is strong and positive.

c )

x	y	x2	y2	xy
3	40	9	1600	120
7	35	49	1225	245
15	30	225	900	450
32	27	1024	729	864
71	16	5041	256	1136
128	148	6348	4710	2815

Σx = 128, Σx² = 6348, Σy = 148, Σy² = 4710, and Σxy = 2815.

using minitab>stat>basic stat>correlation

Correlation: y, x

Pearson correlation of y and x = -0.968
P-Value = 0.007

r = -0.968

d ) Given our value of r, y should tend to decrease as x increases.