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C) There is a clear outlier: (3000, 49). What effect would removing it have on the correlation? Justify your

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An outlier will weaken the correlation making the data more scattered so r gets closer to 0. Therefore, if you remove the outlier, the r value will increase (stronger correlation since data will be less scattered)

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