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 for30

towns in the state. The data sets are provided below. Use Excel to calculate the correlation coefficientr

between the two data sets. Round your answer to two decimal places.

population children in poverty

2990 31

15217 110

9045 168

95673 1241

10580 100

33029 579

26118 141

56201 1704

1365 4

5496 22

16837 322

7386 79

388 9

41861 911

19216 255

26821 405

642 10

18891 31

13988 136

18370 97

4296 20

35066 237

1642 13

22324 115