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The group should select two variables related to people on your campus that it believes have a strong positive or
a. Collect at least 30 ordered pairs of data (x. y) from a sample of people on your campus,
b. Draw a
c. Does the scatter plot indicate a
d. Calculate r. Does the value of r reinforce the impression conveyed by the scatter plot?
e. Find the equation of the regression line.
f. Use the regression line's equation to make a prediction about a y-value given an x-value.
g. Are the results of this project consistent with the group's original belief about the correlation between the variables, or are there some surprises in the data collected?

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