Data on the Amount of Time Spent Studying and the Exam

question 280

Multiple Choice

Data on the amount of time spent studying and the exam score of 150 students at a high school were collected. You want to know if a student's exam score is linearly related to the amount of
Time spent on studying. Which of the following would you compute?

• A) Arithmetic mean.
• B) Median.
• C) Coefficient of variation.
• D) Coefficient of correlation

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