19. Hazardous Waste The number of hazardous waste sites in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2016 are shown in the following table.10 Researchers also recorded the size of the state (in thousands of square kilometers) and generated a scatterplot of the data.

a. Use the scatterplot to describe the relationship between the number of waste sites and size of the state.

b. Use the MINITAB output to calculate the correlation coefficient. Does this confirm your answer to part a?

c. Write a short paragraph to summarize the data set.
Include any other variables that might be considered in trying to understand the distribution of hazardous waste sites in the United States.

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State Sites Area State Sites Area State Sites Area AL 15 135 KY 13 104 ND 0 184 AK 6 1723 LA 15 135 OH 43 117 AZ 9 296 ME 13 91 OK 8 182 AR 137 MD 21 31 OR 14 254 FL IL 381 CA 99 426 MA 33 28 PA 97 119 21 270 MI 67 252 RI 12 5 15 15 MN 25 226 SC 25 83 DE 14 5 MS 9 124 SD 2 200 pc 1 0 MO 33 182 TN 17 109 54 171 MT 19 382 TX 53 699 GA 17 153 NE 16 200 UT 18 221 3 28 NV 1 288 VT 12 26 ID 9 218 NH 21 23 VA 31 111 49 150 NUJ 115 23 WA 51 184 IN 40 93 NM 16 317 WV 10 62 13 145 NY 87 143 WI 38 169 KS 13 213 NC 39 140 WY 2 254