A Study of Traffic Safety Shows a Correlation of 0

question 14

Multiple Choice

A study of traffic safety shows a correlation of 0.57 between average speed of traffic and number of fatal accidents for a particular stretch of highway. This means that________.

• A) drivers should speed up to get through this area as quickly as possible.
• B) as speed increases, fatalities decrease.
• C) fatalities tend to increase as average speed increases.
• D) every 1 mile per hour increase in average speed increases the number of traffic fatalities by .57.

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