A Reporter Studied the Causes of a Fire to a House,and

question 68

Multiple Choice

A reporter studied the causes of a fire to a house,and established thanks to a scatterplot a strong correlation between the damages (in dollars) and the number of firefighters at the scene.Find the lurking variable,if there is one.

• A)Size of the blaze
• B)Size of the house
• C)Weather
• D)Firefighters
• E)No lurking variable

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Sensory Memory

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