SOLUTION: The ages (in years) of seven people and the number of days they spent recovering in the hospital after surgery are given in the following table. Age, x 12 21 38 44 59 63 70 D

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Question 321275: The ages (in years) of seven people and the number of days they spent recovering in the hospital after surgery are given in the following table.
Age, x 12 21 38 44 59 63 70
Days in Hospital, y 4 6 7 5 9 11 12
Make a conclusion about the type of correlation.

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I ran all the regression functions on a TI-84
and examined the "r" values for each.
The highest r-value came with the Quartic Regression.
r = 0.9724
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Cheers,
Stan H.