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8.8 Exercise 9

Avg difficulty 2.5

The data that were plotted in the previous example can be found in the dataset “correlationcoefficient1”. All of them share the same values for the explanatory variable xx. The four responses are labeled y1y 1 through y4 y 4. Compute the correlation coefficients for each, if appropriate, using Google Sheets. Round to the nearest hundredth.

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