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Professor mendez found that the correlation between students' life stress scale score and his or her final grade was -.80. this correlation coefficient indicates a _____ relationship between the two variables.

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A negative value for the correlation indicates that the relationship between the two variables is a negative relationship or an inverse relationship. As one increases (stress score) the other tends to decrease (final grade).
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