If the Line That Comes Closest to All Points in a Scatter

question 4

Multiple Choice

If the line that comes closest to all points in a scatter diagram is perfectly straight, the correlation between the two variables is

• A)linear.
• B)curvilinear.
• C)positive.
• D)unknown.

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