If a Scatterplot Shows That Most of the Points Fall

question 32

Multiple Choice

If a scatterplot shows that most of the points fall on a straight line,we can be confident that the correlation between the two measures is

• A)weak.
• B)strong.
• C)unable to be determined.
• D)zero.

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