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Very tall basketball players have a reputation of being bad free-throw shooters (even though their shots start closer to the rim!). Is this true? Here is a scatterplot showing the relationship between height (in inches) and free-throw percentage for all WNBA players in a recent season with at least 10 free-throw attempts. Describe the relationship between these two variables.

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Recall that the correlation rr is a statistic that measures the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two quantitative variables. The correlation rr can take on the values between 1-1 and 11.

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