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Students in a small statistics course collected data to determine if the length of the forearm could be used to predict the length of the foot (both measured in centimeters). Their data are displayed in the provided table.

-If the forearm and foot lengths had been measured in inches instead of centimeters the correlation would be different.

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Use the following to answer the questions below:
Students in a small statistics course collected data to determine if the length of the forearm could be used to predict the length of the foot (both measured in centimeters). Their data are displayed in the provided table.
 
-If the forearm and foot lengths had been measured in inches instead of centimeters the correlation would be different.

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Correlation is a measure of the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables and is not affected by the units of measurement.

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