A Reporter Investigates Speeding on Roads in a County and Finds

question 65

Multiple Choice

A reporter investigates speeding on roads in a county and finds a correlation of 0.961 between the number of speeding tickets and the numbers of kilometres of well-paved roads.Assuming that the relation is linear,does it mean that there are more speeding tickets on well-paved roads?

• A)Yes: the relation is linear.
• B)No: speeding is a categorical variable.
• C)Yes: the two variables are quantitative.
• D)No: the correlation does not imply causality.
• E)Yes: the correlation is close to 1.

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