Answer:
For a data set of N elements:
{x₁, x₂, ..., xₙ}
The mean is:
The mean absolute deviation is:
And the population standard deviation is:
In this case, our set has 5 elements, and the set is:
{2, 4, 6, 9, 14}
The mean of this set is:
The mean absolute deviation is:
And the population standard deviation is:
As, given correlation coefficient for your data set is= -0.015
It means there is weak relation between two variables.If value of correlation coefficient is near to 1 or -1, it shows there is strong correlation.
Negative correlation means, if one quantity is increasing other is decreasing.So, the value of -0.015 shows that there is very less correlation between x and y values or two values in data set.
So, the chances are very less that predicted value will be reasonably close to the actual value as the points will be far from line of best fit.
That ladder is 14 Feet long because u add 8 and 3 then u get ur answer. Hope that helps.