A Perfect Straight Line Sloping Downward Would Produce a Correlation

question 9

Multiple Choice

A perfect straight line sloping downward would produce a correlation coefficient equal to:

• A) +1
• B) -1
• C) +2
• D) -2
• E) 0

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