Question 6.54

19. Find the correlation between the city and highway gas mileages for the 12 nonhybrid midsized cars (i.e., omit the Toyota Prius) in Table 5.7 (page 196). Explain why the value of supports the scatterplot that you created in Exercise 5.

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, reflecting the moderate, positive, straightline pattern in the Exercise 5 scatterplot.