Use the Following Information for Following Questions

question 16

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for following questions
The scatterplot shows the relationship between a vehicle's age (in years) and its current value (in
dollars) . The coefficient of determination was found to be 98.74%.
-If we converted the x-axis to months, instead of years, what would happen to the value of the correlation coefficient?

• A)The correlation coefficient would increase because we are adding 12 additional values (one for each month) on the x-axis.
• B)The correlation coefficient would decrease because we have less data points per month as opposed to per year.
• C)The correlation coefficient would be unchanged because it is not affected by changes in units.
• D)We cannot make any conclusions about the correlation coefficient because we would need to use the new data values to calculate it.

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