Over the past 40 years, the percentage of homes in the United States with smoke detectors has risen steadily and has plateaued at about 96% (National Fire Protection Association website, January 2015). With this increase in the use of home smoke detectors, what has happened to the death rate from home fires? The DATAfile SmokeDetectors contains
17 years of data on the estimated percentage of homes with smoke detectors and the estimated home fire deaths per million of population.
a.Do you expect a positive or negative relationship between smoke detector use and deaths from home fires? Why or why not?
b.Compute and report the
c.Show a
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