Background The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the nation's health protection agency. They hired you to investigate the recent increase in deaths caused by food obstructing the respiratory tract in the State of Virginia. You decided to go to the web to nd potential independent variables that correlate with fatalities caused by food obstructing the respiratory tract (see the figure on this Mthat shows a negative correlation of 0.94). Year Divorce rate In Virginia Deaths caused by food obstructing respiratory tract Divorces er 1000 o la US Census Deaths U5 CDC 1999 4.4 640 2000 4.3 744 2001 4.2 742 2002 4.2 819 2003 4 875 2004 3.9 878 2005 4 864 2006 4 872 2007 3.8 940 2008 3.8 1021 2009 3.7 1018 2010 3.8 1081