Question

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

x 5 7 9 10 11 12 13
y 3 0 -1 -6 3 8 -4


a. The correlation coefficient for the data is 0.0715. Which statement is true about the data in the table?
b. There is a strong positive relationship between x and y.
c. There is almost no relationship between x and y.
d. There is a strong negative relationship between x and y.
e. There is a weak negative relationship between x and y.

Answer 1

There is almost no relationship between x and y.

Answer 2

The correlation calculation only works well for relationships that follow a straight line.

Therefore in this case, the trend is not linear.So there is no correlation.

c. There is almost no relationship between x and y.