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library(readxl)

district<-read_excel("district.xls")
new_data<-district %>% select(DISTNAME,DPETSPEP,DPFPASPEP)
summary(new_data)
##    DISTNAME            DPETSPEP       DPFPASPEP     
##  Length:1207        Min.   : 0.00   Min.   : 0.000  
##  Class :character   1st Qu.: 9.90   1st Qu.: 5.800  
##  Mode  :character   Median :12.10   Median : 8.900  
##                     Mean   :12.27   Mean   : 9.711  
##                     3rd Qu.:14.20   3rd Qu.:12.500  
##                     Max.   :51.70   Max.   :49.000  
##                                     NA's   :5
#DPFPASPEP has 5 missing variables
new_data_no_missing<-new_data %>% drop_na
#There are 1202 observations after dropping the NA responses
ggplot(new_data_no_missing,aes(x=DPETSPEP,y=DPFPASPEP)) + geom_point()

#The amount of money for special ed seems related to the percentage of special ed students.
cor(new_data_no_missing$DPETSPEP,new_data_no_missing$DPFPASPEP)
## [1] 0.3700234
#There is a weak positive correlation.