Research question:

Is there a relationship between fertilizer use (recommended use 1100mg) and knowledge about
fertilizers of farmers in (state area)?

Hypotheses:

H1 : There is a correlation between fertilizer use and knowledge about fertilizer of farmers in state area
(r ≠ 0)

Y-Values
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It can be perceived from the scatter plot that the points are reasonably closely scattered about an
underlying straight line, so we say there is a strong linear relationship between the two variables. The
scatter plot implies that as the knowledge score increases so the fertilizer use increases. This shows a
positive linear relationship. Pearson's coefficient of linear correlation is a measure of this strength. The
above information illustrates positive correlation – one variable increases as the other increases.
Pearson’s Correlation
Knowledge score(out of 50) Fertilizer use
Knowledge score Pearson 1 r-0.878
(out of 50) Correlation

Sig.(2-tailed) p-value-0.000..

N 30 30
Fertilizer use (mg) Pearson r-0.878 1
Correlation

Sig.(2-tailed) p-0.000..

N 30 30

N.B the information is given twice

Results: From the Correlations table, it can be seen that the correlation coefficient (r) equals 0.878,
indicating a strong relationship, as mentioned earlier. p < 0.001 and indicates that the coefficient is
significantly different from 0.

Conclusion: We can conclude that there is evidence that knowledge about fertilizer is related to fertilizer
use . As such, it seems that the more a famer knows about fertilizers, the closer the recommended
value for fertilizers will be (r = 0.88, p <0.001).
Simple Linear Regression

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.877907
R Square 0.770721
Adjusted R Square
0.762533
Standard Error
79.32832
Observations 30

ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 1 592308.8 592308.8 94.12211 1.87E-10
Residual 28 176203.5 6292.982
Total 29 768512.3

Coefficients
Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95% Upper 95%Lower 95.0%
Upper 95.0%
Intercept 420.6612 40.02926 10.50884 3.18E-11 338.665 502.6574 338.665 502.6574
X Variable 1 12.42696 1.280912 9.701655 1.87E-10 9.803134 15.05079 9.803134 15.05079
 The interpretation of the slope (value = 12.42696) is that fertilizer use increases 12.42696 units, on average, for
each one unit increase in the knowledge score. 
 The interpretation of the intercept (value=420.666116) is that if there should be a case with knowledge score = 0,
the predicted average for the use of fertilizer would be 420.666116 for that score. Since there are no farmer with
knowledge score = 0 this interpretation of the intercept is not practically meaningful for this example.

Conclusion: Based on the information obtained there is a relationship of farmer’s knowledge of fertilizer to fertilizer use.
As the knowledge score increases by 1 unit , fertilizer use increases to the recommended value (1100mg)