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The following table presents data on wine consumption (in litersper person per year) and death rate from heart attacks (in deathsper 100,000 people per year) in 19 developed Western countries.

Country	Alcohol from Wine	Heart disease Deaths
Australia	2.5	211
Austria	3.9	167
Belgium	2.9	131
Canada	2.4	191
Denmark	2.9	220
Finland	0.8	297
France	9.1	71
Iceland	0.8	211
Ireland	0.7	300
Italy	7.9	107
Netherlands	1.8	167
New Zealand	1.9	266
Norway	0.8	227
Spain	6.5	86
Sweden	1.6	207
Switzerland	5.8	115
United Kingdom	1.3	285
United States	1.2	199
West Germany	2.7	172

1. What is the explanatory variable and what is the responsevariable?

2. Create a scatterplot below (go ahead and enter the data intoyour calculator first, but draw a beautiful scatterplot).

3. Does it appear that there is a linear relationship betweenalcohol consumption and heart attacks? Is there a positiveassociation or negative association?

4. Compute the linear regression equation and the correlationcoefficient.

5. Interpret the slope and y-intercept in the context of alcoholconsumption and heart disease.

6. Superimpose the regression equation on the scatterplot.

7. Predict the rate of heart attacks for a country where theaverage wine consumption is 3 liters/person/year

8. Would it be appropriate to try to predict the death rate fromheart attacks for Estonia where the per capita wine consumption is15 liters/year? Why or why not?