Eric Has Collected Data on the Relationship Between the Number

question 14

Multiple Choice

Eric has collected data on the relationship between the number of hours the employees at a large number of corporate headquarters spend working on their computers and the profits of the corporations.His scatter diagram of the data shows it clusters near a line running from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.This shows the correlation is

• A) variable.
• B) zero.
• C) positive.
• D) negative.

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