A store manager wishes to find out whether there is a relationship between the age of her employees and the number of sick days they take each year. The data for the sample are shown below
age x 18 26 39 48 53 58
sick days y 16 12 9 5 6 2
a. Draw the scatter plot for the variables.
b. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient.
c. State the hypotheses.
d. Test the significance of the correlation coefficient at .
e. Give a brief explanation of the type of relationship.