You Must Determine the Strength and Direction of a Correlation

question 59

Multiple Choice

You must determine the strength and direction of a correlation between two variables, but you only have information concerning the scatterplot. Told there is little scatter among a set of data points that fall in a lower left to upper right direction on a graph, you conclude that the correlation would BEST be described as _____.

• A) strongly positive
• B) weakly positive
• C) strongly negative
• D) weakly negative

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