Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 17

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
A consumer research group investigating the relationship between the price of meat (per kilogram) and the fat content (grams) gathered data that produced the following scatterplot.
-A student wants to investigate the association between number of cases of mosquito-borne diseases and ice cream sales in the campus area. Which of the following statements is true?

• A) It looks like there is a strong positive correlation.
• B) It looks like there is a strong negative correlation.
• C) The variables are not quantitative, so the student reports about a strong positive association.
• D) The variables are not quantitative, so the student reports about nonlinear association.
• E) There is a lurking variable, weather, in this study. As the weather grows warmer, more people buy ice cream and more people go outside.

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