After calculating the correlation, the analyst at the fitness center in Exercise 26 discovered that the scale used to weigh the athletes was off by 5 pounds; each athlete’s weight was measured as 5...

After calculating the correlation, the analyst at the fitness center in Exercise 26 discovered that the scale used to weigh the athletes was off by 5 pounds; each athlete’s weight was measured as 5 pounds more than it actually was. How does this error affect the reported correlation?

Exercise 26

A fitness center weighed 53 male athletes and then measured the weight that they were able to lift. The correlation was found to be
. Can you interpret this correlation without knowing whether the weights were in pounds or kilograms or a mixture of the two?