The Relationship Between the Number of Hours a Person Practices

question 37

Multiple Choice

The relationship between the number of hours a person practices a task and the time it takes them to complete the task is calculated to have R-sq = 56.7%. The value of the correlation coefficient is

• A) 0.753
• B) -0.238
• C) 0.238
• D) -0.753
• E) 2.38

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