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Perform an online search to answer the questions below.a. Find your state’s population for each of the last ten years.b. Create a table of bivariate data. Let $x$ represent the year, and let $y$ represent the population.c. Create a scatter plot for the data.d. Describe the correlation between the year and your state’s population.
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