Captain Buck Tooth has taken you prisoner aboard his pirate ship, the Lucky Lemon. He sees from your
college transcripts you have taken a couple of statistics courses. For the last 20 ships he has looted he
measured the height in inches when the ship was still way off on the horizon. The captain also has a
good memory and remembers how much gold was taken from each ship in number of pieces. Captain
Buck Tooth wants you to help him understand the relationship between the size of the ship and the
amount of gold it has. As you prepare your report the captain announces he has just seen a ship with a
height of 4.1 and he asks you to include in your report how much gold it will have.
The captain hates all tables, graphs, and figures, so you are not allowed to use any of them in your
report. If you can’t justify your conclusions you will be fired. From a cannon.
Ship Gold
4.8 119
1.4
76
3.2
64
2.9 124
1.6
88
1.5 124
3.5 100
2.1 100
2.3
67
3.0 173
2.6 123
1.1 107
1.8
65
4.2 200
4.0 170
2.8 113
4.3 158
2.7 145
4.0 120
2.0
92