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Kiran creates a scatter plot showing the relationship between the number of students attending drama club and the number of students attending poetry club each week. The correlation coefficient for the line of best fit is -0.36. Is this correlation, causation, or no relationship

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Answer:

No relationship

Explanation:

The correlation coefficient is too weak to tell you anything.

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a. Yes, a negative correlation exist. As the number of students attending the drama club increases, the number of students attending the poetry club decreases An increase in one variable causes the decrease in another, so they have a negative correlation between them.

b. Yes, an increase in one variable causes a decrease in the other, and vice versa. So there is an association between the variables. There is a negative association/correlation between the variables.
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