Question

Marcus likes to go for a run each morning before school. He recorded the number of minutes he spends running and the distance he covers. The scatter plot represents the data he collected

Answer 1

D. 0.85

Explanation:

The data points in the scatter plot are closer to each other along the line of best fit, this means that there is a strong positive association between minutes and distance and therefore, the correlation coefficient would be relatively closer to 1.

The correlation is positive since both variables tend to increase together in the same direction.

Therefore, the best estimate of the correlation coefficient out of the given options would be 0.85