Question

Help... A store owner collected data about the number of customers who came to the store in a day, y, for several days compared to the high temperature for that day, x. He found that the correlation coefficient was −0.76.

Answer 1

Decreased

Strong negative

Explanation:

The correlation Coefficient is used to show the strength and type of relationship which exists between the dependent and independent variable. The correlation Coefficient value ranges from - 1, to 1. With values closer to either - 1 or 1 depicting a strong relationship while those closer to 0 represents weak relationship. And correlation Coefficient of 0 indicates that no relationship exiata at all. Depending in the sign, that is positive or negative, positive sign means positive relationship while a negative sign represents a negative association. Positive association is interpreted as, for every increase in A, Variable B also increase and vice versa. For negative association, When A increases, B decreases and vice versa