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The local newspaper randomly polled 48 people between the ages of 16 and 55 years old regarding how often they read the newspaper each week. Let x represent the participants' age in years and y represent the number of times they read the newspaper each week. The newspaper staff calculated the correlation coefficient between x and y to be 0.93. Choose the statement that correctly describes the correlation between x and y.

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The answer is strong positive correlation because 0.93 is positive and close to 1.

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