State University Recently Randomly Sampled Ten Students and Analyzed Grade

question 17

True/False

State University recently randomly sampled ten students and analyzed grade point average (GPA) and number of hours worked off-campus per week. The following data were observed: If the university wished to test the claim that the correlation between hours worked and GPA is negative, the following null and alternative hypotheses would be appropriate: H0 : ρ < 0.0 Ha : ρ ≥ 0.0

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