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A financial analyst is examining the relationship between stock prices and earnings per share. She chooses fifteen publicly traded companies at records for each the company's current stock price and the company's earnings per share reported for the past 12 months. Her data are given b denoting the earnings per share from the previous year and y denoting the current stock price (both in dollars). A scatter plot of her data is sho Also given is the product of the earnings per share and the current stock price for each of the fifteen stocks. (These products, written in the colu ", may aid in calculations.) Earnings per Current stock share, x price, y xy (in dollars) (in dollars) 27.07 1.10 29.777 17.02 0.72 12.2544 38.51 1.07 41.2057 41.60 1.02 42.432 25- 42.97 1.64 70.4708 X 2- 40.97 1.30 53.261 X Current stock price (in dollars) 32.28 1.77 57.1356 X 50.69 1.65 83.6385 58.81 2.11 124.0891 0.51 30.34 1.34 40.6556 0 10 20 30 40 50 36.67 1.59 58.3053 15.48 0.52 8.0496 Earnings per share (in dollars) 31.03 0.85 26.3755 Figure 1