Question: Can you help the manager of a senior citizen center at the local library determine if there was any merit to her idea that the patron's age and the number of books checked out were related? Her thought was that as an individual got older, more books would be checked out. She would like to be able to predict the number of books tha would be checked out by looking at a person's age. The manager is especially interested in the number of books checked out for those 65 years of age. She selected a random sample of 24 senior patrons and collected details of the age and the number of books checked out during a 4-week period. If you wish to help, select the correct statistical approach, write the null and alternative hypothesis, conduct the analysis, and interpret the results. Her data are as follows:
