Imagine That You Could Draw a Line Through the Points

question 45

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you could draw a line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y that slopes upward from left to right. Which of the following is a possible value for the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?

• A) -1.0
• B) -.5
• C) 0
• D) 1.0

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