Step 1 :To answer part a, examine the scatterplot and subjectively determine if there is a strong correlation between x and y. Since the scatterplot is not provided, this question cannot be answered.
Step 2 :To answer part b, calculate the correlation coefficient r for all 10 data points using the Pearson correlation coefficient formula: \( r = \frac{\sum (x_i - \bar{x})(y_i - \bar{y})}{\sqrt{\sum (x_i - \bar{x})^2 \sum (y_i - \bar{y})^2}} \) where \( x_i \) and \( y_i \) are the individual data points, and \( \bar{x} \) and \( \bar{y} \) are the means of the x and y data points, respectively.
Step 3 :Using the given data points x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] and y = [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20], calculate the correlation coefficient r.
Step 4 :The calculated correlation coefficient r is 0.9999999999999999.
Step 5 :Final Answer: \( r = \boxed{1.000} \)