The table below shows the temperature (in degrees) for eight consecutive days as well as the respective number of ice cream cones an ice cream shop sold on each of these days.
Temperature 68 77 83 85 89 94 96 99
Number of Cones 403 447 457 465 489 503 543 576
What is the correlation coefficient of the set of data? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.
(1 point)
Responses
a. 0.956
b. negative 0 point 972
c. 0.019
d. 0.508
a. 0.956
The correlation coefficient of the set of data is 0.956.