Quelpr

CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2016 · Paper 1 · Question Q37

The time, x minutes, taken on 9 different occasions for an air conditioning unit to reach its desired temperature, y\ ^\circ\text{C}, when switched on is summarized by \sum x = 68.8, \sum x^2 = 753.9, \sum y = 180 \sum y^2 = 5100, \sum xy = 1960 The sample product-moment correlation coefficient, to 3 significant figures, is

  1. (A)0.153
  2. (B)0.500
  3. (C)0.756
  4. (D)0.999

The answer is shown once you've answered.

Practise this question

More practice: the rest of this paper · more Correlation and Linear Regression - Bivariate Data questions · all CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 past papers