Given the Following Scatterplot, If a Point Was Added in the Upper

question 6

Multiple Choice

Given the following scatterplot, if a point was added in the upper left corner with an x-value of 10 and a y-value of 20, what would happen to the value of the correlation coefficient, r?

• A)r will get closer to 0.
• B)r will get closer to 1.
• C)r will get closer to -1.
• D)r will not change.

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