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“Can height be used to predict the number of candies that will be in the bag of Skittles you purchase?”
• I do not think that there will be any correlation between a students height and the number of
candies in the bag that they purchased because height varies greatly from person to person, and
cannot determine how many candies are in a bag of Skittles.
• The explanatory variable would be the student’s height. The response variable would be the
number of candies in the bag, since it is the variable of interest in the study.
Parameter estimates:
Height # of
candies
63.5 55
60 57
62 58
67.2 59
66 59
62.5 60
60 61
68 61
68 64
• The correlation coefficient for the systematic sample of data values is r=.445. Since there
were 9 values included in the sample, the critical value is .666. Since the absolute value of r
is .445 and is below the critical value, we can determine that no linear relation exists for the
smaller data set.
• The regression equation is: ŷ=.356(x)+36.510.