Yolanda Has Collected Data on the Relationship Between the Number

question 26

Multiple Choice

Yolanda has collected data on the relationship between the number of hours the employees at a large number of corporate headquarters spend working on their computers and the profits of the corporations.She finds that the correlation is about positive .75.A scatter diagram of Yolanda's data would show the data

• A) on a perfectly straight line from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.
• B) clustering near a line running from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.
• C) on a perfectly straight line from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.
• D) clustering near a line running from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.

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