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Kiran creates a scatter plot showing the relationship between the number of students attending drama club and the number of students attending poetry club each week. The correlation coefficient for the line of best fit is -0.36.Are they correlated? Explain your reasoning.

Kiran creates a scatter plot showing the relationship between the number of students-example-1
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Solution

For this case we have the following correlation

-0.36

We can conclude that the we have a weak correlation with an inverse relationship

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