Per the Text,we Would Expect the Correlation Between Smoking and Lung

question 18

Multiple Choice

Per the text,we would expect the correlation between smoking and lung cancer to be _____ whereas we would expect the correlation between mountain elevation and temperature to be _____.

• A)curvilinear; negative
• B)positive; negative
• C)negative; positive
• D)positive; curvilinear

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