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This question is based around annual CO2 emissions for countries around the world over many years. Of particular interest is how CO per capita (millions of tonnes) and GDP per capita ($) are related to each other. To investigate this, we construct a scatter plot between these two variables using data from 2016 (shown below).
Referring to the scatter plot, it was decided that the country with CO per capita of 29.2 and GDP per capita of 24,000 is an outlier, so the correlation was recalculated without this country.
The new correlation will be: