When homeowners list their home for sale, they begin by listing it for a price that is greater than what they expect to receive.
The longer a home is on the market, without being sold, the more the price drops. A realtor selects 50 homes that are currently listed for sale. A scatterplot reveals that the association between x = the number of days the home is on the market and y = the current asking price ($) is fairly linear and can be modeled by the equation \hat{y} = 245,000-200x y
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=245,000−200x. Additionally, 85.4% of the variation in the current asking price can be explained by this linear model. Which of the following is the value of the correlation (r) for the relationship between x and y?
The correlation is the square root of the coefficient of determination (r2), which is 0.854. The correlation also takes the same sign as the slope, so the correlation is r=-\sqrt{0.854}=-0.924r=− 0.854 =−0.924