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Forest Fires and Acres Burned An environmentalist wants to determine the relationships between the numbers (in thousands) of forest fires over the year and the number (in hundred thousands) of acres burned. The data for 6  recent years are shown. Number of fires     72, 58, 47, 84, 62, 57                         Number of acres burned   62, 19, 26, 51, 15, 30                           Draw the scatter plot for the variables. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient r= state the hypothesis h0: h1:  critical value(s) reject or accept the null hypothesis Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship

Forest Fires and Acres Burned An environmentalist wants to determine the relationships between the numbers (in thousands) of forest fires over the year and the number (in hundred thousands) of acres burned. The data for 6  recent years are shown. Number of fires     72, 58, 47, 84, 62, 57                         Number of acres burned   62, 19, 26, 51, 15, 30                           Draw the scatter plot for the variables. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient r= state the hypothesis h0: h1:  critical value(s) reject or accept the null hypothesis Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship

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Forest Fires and Acres Burned An environmentalist wants to determine the relationships between the numbers (in thousands) of forest fires over the year and the number (in hundred thousands) of acres burned. The data for 6  recent years are shown.

Number of fires     72, 58, 47, 84, 62, 57                        
Number of acres burned   62, 19, 26, 51, 15, 30                          


Draw the scatter plot for the variables.

Compute the value of the correlation coefficient

r=

state the hypothesis

h0:

h1: 

critical value(s)

reject or accept the null hypothesis

Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship

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