1) An environmentalist wants to determine the relationships between the numbers (in thousands) of forest fires over the year and the number (in hundred thousands) of acres burned. The data for 8 recent years are shown. Describe the relationship.

Number of fires (x)	72	69	58	47	84	62	57	45
Number of Acres Burned (y)	62	42	19	26	51	15	30	15

2) The yearly data have been published showing the number of releases for each of the commercial movie studios and the gross receipts for those studios thus far. What is the correlation coefficient?

No. of releases (x)	361	270	306	22	35	10	8	12	21
Gross receipts (million $) (y)	3844	1962	1371	1064	334	241	188	154	125