A survey was conducted to determine the favorite grocery store, number of pets in household and monthly expenditure on pet food for students at Central piedmont Community College (CPCC).

The quantitative data collected was:

How many pets are in your household?

What is your monthly pet food expenditure in dollars?

1. Based on this chart, what is the correlation coefficient and is it significant?

Correlations of number of pets in household vs monthly food expenditure ($) Number of pets in Monthly food household expenditure Number of pets in household Pearson Correlation 1 *# 559 Sig. (2-tailed) 001 N 33 33 Monthly food expenditure Pearson Correlation * * 559 1 Sig. (2-tailed) 001 N 33 33 ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)