Which Question Is Best Addressed with the Correlational Strategy

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which question is best addressed with the correlational strategy?

• A) What is the average number of hours of sleep that a typical college student gets each night?
• B) Is there a relationship between the amount of sleep that college students get each night and the GPA of those college students?
• C) Does increasing the hours of sleep college students get each night cause an increase in GPA?
• D) What career choices are most popular among students with high GPAs?

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Definitions:

α-Carbon

The carbon atom directly attached to a functional group in an organic molecule.

Racemic Mixtures

A mixture containing equal amounts of two enantiomers of a compound, making it optically inactive due to the canceling effect of the two forms' rotation of plane-polarized light.

Achiral

A term describing an object or molecule that is superposable on its mirror image; not chiral.

L-Aspartic Acid

A naturally occurring amino acid found in proteins and important for the biosynthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid cycle.