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Most of us love a bowl of cereal every now and then. Some common cereal brands with calories and fat per grams per serving are given in the table below. Is a cereal's calorie content determined by it's fat content?A. Draw the scatterplot for the variables b. Describe the relationship, if any, shown by the scatterplot.c. Calculate r, the correlation coefficient. How does the correlation coefficient compare to the relationship you saw in the scatterplot?
Cereal: Calories(per serving): Fat (per gram):
Almond Delight 110 2
Apple Jacks 110 2
Bran Chex 90 1
Cap n Crunch 120 2
Cheerios 110 2
Cinnamon Toast Crunch 120 3
Corn Flakes 100 0
Honey Nut Cheerios 110 1
Honeycomb 110 0
Lucky Charms 110 1
Special K 110 0
Grape nuts 110 0
Cocoa puffs 110 1
Corn pops 110 0
Frosted Flakes 110 0
Froot Loops 110 1
Most of us love a bowl of cereal every now and then. Some common cereal brands with calories and fat per grams per serving are given in the table below. Is a cereal's calorie content determined by it's fat content?
A. Draw the scatterplot for the variables
b. Describe the relationship, if any, shown by the scatterplot.
The plot shows that there is a positive relation between calories and fat.
c. Calculate r, the correlation coefficient. How does the correlation coefficient compare to the relationship you saw in the scatterplot?
Excel used for calculation.
Correlation Matrix |
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Calories |
Fat |
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Calories |
1.0000 |
0.4059 |
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Fat |
0.4059 |
1.0000 |
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16 |
sample size |
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± .497 |
critical value .05 (two-tail) |
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± .623 |
critical value .01 (two-tail) |
The correlation coefficient r=0.4059. The correlation is positive. This confirms the results of the scatterplot.