Roller coasters. Roller coasters get all their speed by dropping down a steep initial incline, so it makes sense that the height of that drop might be related to the speed of the coaster. Here’s a scatterplot of top Speed and largest Drop for 75 roller coasters around the world.

a) Does the scatterplot indicate that it is appropriate to calculate the correlation? Explain.

b) In fact, the correlation of Speed and Drop is 0.91.
Describe the association.

87.5- 75.0 62.5 50.0 Speed (mph) 75 150 Drop (ft) 225 300