Mary Performs an Analysis of the Relationship Between Volunteer Age

question 26

Multiple Choice

Mary performs an analysis of the relationship between volunteer age and amount of time spent volunteering. She finds that people volunteer a lot when they are younger, then they do not volunteer much during the middle portion of their life, and finally they volunteer a lot at the end of their life. How would you describe this type of relationship?

• A) Weakly correlated
• B) Strongly correlated
• C) Curvilinear
• D) Linear

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