About _____ of Marriages in the United States End in Divorce,and

question 9

Multiple Choice

About _____ of marriages in the United States end in divorce,and most of these divorces happen within the first ___ years of marriage.

• A)50%;7
• B)25%;3
• C)75%;15
• D)5%;2

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Definitions:

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that calculates the strength of the relationship between the relative movements of two variables.

Covariance

A measure of how two random variables move in relation to each other, indicating the direction of their linear relationship.

Covariance

A measure indicating the extent to which two variables change in tandem, helping to assess the degree to which they move in relation to each other.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that calculates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables on a numerical scale from -1 to 1.