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 of 8 teams.
Team Games Won Batting Average
1 105 10.273
2 80
0.265
3 97 0.273
4 191
0.282
5 77
0.27
16 65
0.262
17 117 0.264
8 63 0.275
Using games won as the independent variable 2, do the following:
(a) The correlation coefficient is
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0.0489
(b) The equation of the least squares line is
0.269