Legalized gambling is available on several riverboat casinos operated by a city in Mississippi. The mayor of the city wants to know the correlation between the number of casino employees and the yearly crime rate. The records for the past 10 years are examined, and the results listed in Table 5 are obtained. Calculate the coefficient of correlation, r , for the data. Interpret the result.

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