Manuela Has Collected Data on the Relationship Between the Number

question 30

Multiple Choice

Manuela has collected data on the relationship between the number of hours the number of days the employees at a large number of factories call in sick and the productivity of the factories.She finds that the correlation is about negative .75.A scatter diagram of Manuela'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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