The Correlation Between the Number of Ounces of Candy a Child

question 83

Multiple Choice

The correlation between the number of ounces of candy a child consumes weekly and the number of cavities the child has at the age of 13 is 0.78.If a child has a z score of -0.85 on the candy-consumed variable, the z score on the variable number of cavities would be predicted to be:

• A) -0.66.
• B) -0.92.
• C) 0.66.
• D) 0.92.

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