QUESTION 4

A doctor at CWM hospital in Fiji wishes to investigate if there is a relationship between a mother's weight (in pounds) and her new born child's weight (in pounds). The following data was collected: Mother's weight, x 176 160 187 210 196 142 205 215 Child's weight, y 6.6 8.2 9.2 7.1 8.8 9.3 7.4 8.6 Test the significance of the correlation coefficient at a = 0.05. (6 marks)