A dietician wants to discover if there is a correlation between age and number of meals eaten outside the home. The dietician recruits participants and administers a two-question survey: (a) “How old are you?” and (b) “How many times do you eat out (meals not eaten at home) in an average month?”

Data set: Ch 08 – Exercise 06A.sav Codebook Variable: age Definition: Age of participant Type: Continuous Variable: mealsout Definition: Number of means out participant eats per month Type: Continuous

1. Write the hypotheses.

2. Run the criteria of the pretest checklist (normality [for both variables], linearity, homoscedasticity) and discuss your findings.

3. Run the bivariate correlation, scatterplot with regression line, and descriptive statistics for both variables and document your findings (r and Sig. [p value], ns, means, standard deviations) and hypothesis resolution.

4. Write an abstract up to 200 words detailing a summary of the study, the bivariate correlation, hypothesis resolution, and implications of your findings.