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Is the number of games won by a major league baseball team in a season related to the team batting average? The table below shows the number of games won and the batting average (in thousandths) of 8 teams. Team Games Won Batting Average 1 75 264 2 77 263 3 88 285 4 77 259 5 106 281 6 101 270 7 60 274 8 97 268 Using games won as the explanatory variable x, do the following: (a) The correlation coefficient is r= . (b) The equation of the least squares line is ŷ = .