3. An employer gathered the data in the table to determine whether there was a relationship between an employee's pay rate and the number of sick days they took. Pay rate in dollars, x 17 25 21 29 16.5 24 27.5 29 18 Number of sick days per year, y 16 8 10 3 14 9 7 2 20 (a) Use technology to calculate the correlation coefficient r between pay rate and number of sick days taken. (b) What conclusion can the employer draw about the relationship between the variables by using the correlation coefficient? Explain.