Help! Solving for Coefficient of Correlation

Question

I have found answers for the first three questions, but I am very confused about the coefficient of correlation for this. I have tried multiple times to answer this and have tried: 0.5713, 0.431887, 0.4307, and 0.599 (they have all been wrong). Any help would be much appreciated!!!

A sports bar/restaurant owner is interested in investigating if the number of meals served in his establishment depends on the number of major sporting events played during the week. He collects data from 8 weeks during the past year of the number of major sporting events that week as well as the number of meals he served?

# major sporting events : 6, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 5, 3

# meals served : 542, 478, 556, 347, 473, 494, 518, 386

What is the average number of meals served? What is the mode number of major sporting events? What is the interquartile range of number of meals served? What is the coefficient of correlation between major sporting events and meals served? What is the relationship between major sporting events and meals served?

Answer 1

The value of R is: 0.5986 I used an online calculator to get this, I didn't calculate in manually. This value indicates as the number on sporting events increase, the number of meals increase. The value isn't very close to 1, so the correlation isn't that strong.

Answer 2

Your last answer is correct; perhaps, you don't use the correct number of digits. Try .5986