A Perfect Straight Line Sloping Downward Would Produce a Correlation

question 26

Multiple Choice

A perfect straight line sloping downward would produce a correlation coefficient equal to:

• A) +1.0
• B) -1.0
• C) 0.0
• D) Cannot tell from the information given.

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