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question 11

Multiple Choice

Readers are encouraged to use Microsoft Excel to solve this problem.In a nuclear medicine technology training program, the students wonder if their final exam grade in their training program is related to their subsequent board score on the NMTCB exam.The five students attain the following pairs of scores (exam score, board score) = (72, 60) , (84, 74) , (88, 71) , (68, 60) , (91, 79) .What is the linear correlation coefficient, r, between exam score and board score?

• A)0.99
• B)0.95
• C)0.86
• D)0.75

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