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Question 6
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Question 6
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## The following table presents the number of police officers (per 100,000 citizens) and the annual murder rate (per 100,000 citizens) for a sample of cities.$\begin{array} { c c } \hline \text { Police Officers (per 100,000) } & \text { Murders (per 100,000 per yr) } \\\hline 1377 & 32 \\1324 & 38 \\1068 & 47 \\1443 & 33 \\1289 & 42 \\1206 & 39 \\\hline\end{array}$ Compute the correlation coefficient between the per capita number of police officers and the per capita murder rate.

A)-0.900
B)0.810
C)-0.810
D)-0.846

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