A Traffic Safety Officer Conducted an Experiment to Determine Whether

question 49

Multiple Choice

A traffic safety officer conducted an experiment to determine whether there is a correlation between people's ages and driving speeds. Six individuals were randomly sampled and the following data were collected. The proportion of variability of Y accounted for by X is _________.

• A) 0.49
• B) 0.67
• C) 0.40
• D) - 0.49

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