The table below shows the surface area y, in square inches, of a shrinking puddle in x hours: time (x) (hours) 1 4 7 10 surface area (y) (square inches) 100 85 70 55 part a: what is the most likely value of the correlation coefficient of the data in the table? based on the correlation coefficient, describe the relationship between time and surface area of the puddle. [choose the value of the correlation coefficient from −1, −0.99, −0.5, −0.02.] (4 points) part b: what is the value of the slope of the graph of surface area versus time between 1 and 4 hours, and what does the slope represent? (3 points) part c: does the data in the table represent correlation or causation? explain your answer. (3 points)

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4,624π mm2

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i dont know

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the reason i dont know is because i have not taken this class and for that reason i haven't learned this stuff

hope i could

let's first notice, the center of the hyperbola is at the origin, since the focus points are equidistantly 3 units away from the origin, that also means that the distance "c" from the center to either focus is 3.

it should also be notable that, the traverse axis for this hyperbola is vertical, or namely over the y-axis and therefore, the positive fraction will be the one with y-variable.

the traverse "a" component or distance from the center to either vertex is not 2, is more than 2, so we can safely put it at √5 ≈ 2.24.