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You use a line of best fit for a set of data to make a prediction about an unknown value. The correlation coefficient for your data set is -0.833. Can you be confident that your predicted value will be reasonably close to the actual value. Why or why not.

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No.

Step-by-step explanation: negative 0.833 is way closer to 0 than it is to 1. The closer the correlation coefficient is to one, the more likely it is correct

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