A hospital administrator wants to see if there is a relationship between the number of licensed beds and the number of staffed beds in local hospitals. The data for a specific day are shown. Describe the relationship.

Perform the following steps.
a. Draw the scatter plot for the variables.
b. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient.
c. State the hypotheses.
d. Test the significance of the correlation coefficient at α = 0.05, using Table I.
e. Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship.

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Licensed beds. 144 32 175 185 208 100 169 Staffed bedsy 112 32 162 141 103 80 118