Question

Suppose a furniture manufacturer ships their products to distributors in pairs (so there are two items sent in each box). The weights of furniture pieces vary significantly, but the manufacturer wants to make sure the weight of each package is about the same. From this information, the correlation between the weights of the two individual furniture pieces will be ______________.

A. Positive
B. Negative
C.0
D. Cannot be determined

Answer 1

I think its B.Negative

Answer 2

Negative.

When the weight of one piece goes up, the weight of the other piece goes down so their total will remain about constant.