Chapter 10.1, Problem 17BSC

Testing for a Linear Correlation. In Exercises 13-28, construct a scatterplot, and find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r. Also find the P-value or the critical values of r from Table A-6. Use a significance level of α = 0.05. Determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support a claim of a linear correlation between the two variables. (Save your work because the same data sets will be used in Section 10-2 exercises.)

17. CSI Statistics Police sometimes measure shoe prints at crime scenes so that they can learn something about criminals. Listed below are shoe print lengths, fool lengths, and heights of males (from Data Set 2 “Foot and Height” in Appendix B). Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that there is a linear correlation between shoe print lengths and heights of males? Based on these results, does it appear that police can use a shoe print length to estimate the height of a male?