Provide an Appropriate Response

question 59

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-Suppose data are collected concerning the weight of a person in pounds and the number of calories burned in 30 minutes of walking on a treadmill at 3.5 mph. How would the value of the correlation coefficient, r, change if all of the weights were converted to kilograms?

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