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What is the approximate value of the correlation coefficient for the given graph?

What is the approximate value of the correlation coefficient for the given graph?-example-1

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The correlation coefficient is the strength of a linear relationship, 1 being perfectly positively linear, 0 being not linear in any way, shape or form. Since this graph shows a perfectly negative linear relationship the value of the correlation coefficient would likely be -1. 
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