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Please help me!! Quiz due 11:59pm - Match each scatterplot shown below with one of the four specified correlations

Please help me!! Quiz due 11:59pm - Match each scatterplot shown below with one of-example-1

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so the closer to 1 the higher the correlation or the closer the dots are to each other.

a) -0.97
the dots should have a relatively negative slope and close together. the last graph fits this best.

b) 0.16
the dots should not really have a linear relationship and would look a bit disordered. this would best fit the first graph

c) 0.17
like b, this would be a bit disordered but there should be a more visible linear pattern amongst the dots, which i believe the second graph seems to fit the best.

d) 0.89
there would be a positive linear relationship amongst the dots and they should be relatively close together which fits the third graph best.

b and c are very similar, and to me the first graph fits b better, however if you believe the second is less of a linear relationship compared to the first one, put that as b
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