My question for my stats homework comes from the textbook Introduction to the Practice of Statistics Ninth Edition.  This comes from section exercise 2.58  from the textbook. Can you please help me solve this problem?

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My question for my stats homework comes from the textbook Introduction to the Practice of Statistics Ninth Edition.  This comes from section exercise 2.58  from the textbook. Can you please help me solve this problem? 

2.58 An interesting set of data. Make a scatterplot of
the following data:
e
n INTER
2 3 4 10 10
1 3 3 5 1 10
Y
Verify that the correlation is about 0.5. What feature of
1
the data is responsible for reducing the correlation to this
value despite a strong straight-line association between x
and y in most of the observations?
1.
Transcribed Image Text:2.58 An interesting set of data. Make a scatterplot of the following data: e n INTER 2 3 4 10 10 1 3 3 5 1 10 Y Verify that the correlation is about 0.5. What feature of 1 the data is responsible for reducing the correlation to this value despite a strong straight-line association between x and y in most of the observations? 1.
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