PROBLEM SET ON CORRELATION

1. A college professor is interested in finding the strength of a relationship between the final exam
grades of students’ enrolled algebra and calculus classes. The data are given below in
percentage.

Algebra, x 83 97 80 95 73 78 91 86
Calculus, y 78 95 83 97 78 72 90 80

The SPSS output below shows that r-value = 0.881 with a P-value of 0.004.  Explain the r-value 
comprehensively. Find the coefficient of determination then explain thoroughly.

Correlations

Descriptive Statistics
Mean Std. Deviation N
algebra 85.3750 8.46737 8
calculu 84.1250 8.93528 8
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Correlations
algebra calculus
algebra Pearson Correlation 1 .881**

Sig. (2-tailed) .004

N 8 8
calculus Pearson Correlation .881 **
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Sig. (2-tailed) .004
N 8 8
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).