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A baseball manager wishes to find out if there is a relationship between the number of...
A baseball manager wishes to find out if there is a relationship between the number of homeruns and the number of strikeouts in a season by batters. The data for the sample are shown:
Homeruns, x: 23 62 10 51 38
Strikeouts, y: 61 175 40 129 124
a) Compute the value of the correlation coefficient.
b) Find the equation of the regression line.
c) Find y’ (the number of strikeouts) when x = 28. (someone hits 28 homeruns)
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