Question

The governor of a state has put together a team tasked with determining factors that account for the number of children living in poverty within the state. The members of the team are testing whether the number of children in living in povertyin a town is proportional to the population of the town. So they looked at the population and number of children in poverty for 30 towns in the state. The data sets are provided below. Use Excel to calculate the correlation coefficient r between the two data sets. Round your answer to two decimal places.