Data on dating. A student wonders if tall women tend to date taller men thando short

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Data on dating. A student wonders if tall women tend to date taller men thando short women. She measures herself, her dormitory roommate, and the womenin the adjoining rooms; then she measures the next man each woman dates. Hereare the data (heights in inches):Women (x) 66 64 66 65 70 65Men (y) 72 68 70 68 71 65(a) Make a scatterplot of these data. Based on the scatterplot, do you expect thecorrelation to be positive or negative? Near 1 or not?(b) Find the correlation r between the heights of the men and women. Do thedata show that taller women tend to date taller men?

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