Question

A personal trainer keep track of the number of minutes each of his 20 clients exercise on the treadmill and the number of calories each client burned during that time removing. which TWO of these data points will cause the correlation coefficient to decrease the most?

A). Data point A

B). Data point B

C). Data point C

D). Data point D

Answer 1

Data Point B and Data point E

Explanation:

Data point B and data point E are the farthest and are more distant away from the best line of fit compared to other data points. The more clustered data points are, the more the correlation that exists between the variables in question.

Therefore, data point B and data point E, will cause the correlation coefficient to decrease the most.