Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 86

Consider this scenario: The population of a city increased steadily over a ten-year span. The following ordered pairs show the population and the year over the ten-year span (population, year) for specific recorded years:

$(\text{3},\text{600},\text{2000});(\text{4},\text{000},\text{2001});(\text{4},\text{700},\text{2003});(\text{6},\text{000},\text{2006})$

What is the correlation coefficient for this model to three decimal places of accuracy?

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Precalculus 2e · §2.4 Fitting Linear Models to Data · Review Exercise 86