The Following Display from a Graphing Calculator Presents the Least-Squares

question 21

Multiple Choice

The following display from a graphing calculator presents the least-squares regression line for predicting the price of a certain commodity (y) from the price of a barrel of oil (x) . What is the correlation between the oil price and the commodity price?

• A) 0.76153
• B) 0.59
• C) 5.04
• D) 0.57993

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