Question: In Exercise 23, add data for a child who is 6 years old and has a vocabulary size of 900 words to the data set.

In Exercise 23, add data for a child who is 6 years old and has a vocabulary size of 900 words to the data set. Describe how this affects the correlation coefficient r.


Data from Exercise 23;

The ages (in years) of 11 children and the numbers of words in their vocabulary


5 3 4 5 Age, x 3 1 2 Vocabulary size, y 3 220 540 1100 2100 2600 730 2200 260 1200 2500 6. 3. 6. 3.

5 3 4 5 Age, x 3 1 2 Vocabulary size, y 3 220 540 1100 2100 2600 730 2200 260 1200 2500 6. 3. 6. 3.

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