THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 153

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
For a random sample of 263 professionals,the correlation between their age and their income was found to be 0.17.You are interested in testing the null hypothesis that there is no linear relationship between these two variables against the alternative that there is a positive relationship.
-What is the most accurate statement that can be made about the p-value for this test?

• A)p-value < 0.005
• B)p-value < 0.01
• C)p-value < 0.025
• D)p-value < 0.05

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Concordance Rate

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