Question

The correlation coefficient for the data is 0.9976. Which statement is true about the data in the table?

Answer 1

The full question is actually:

The table below shows the values of y for different values of x:

x | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

y | 3 5 7 9 10 13 14

The correlation coefficient for the data is 0.9976. Which statement is true about the data in the table?

The actual answer choices:

There is a strong positive relationship between x and y.

There is a strong negative relationship between x and y.

There is a weak positive relationship between x and y.

There is a weak negative relationship between x and y.

Answer:

The Answer is A, the answer I underlined.

Answer 2

Since it's close to 1 the data will fall very close to a straight line. The relationship between x and y will be the slope of the line.

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