A Study Was Conducted to Determine If There Was a Relationship

question 60

Multiple Choice

A study was conducted to determine if there was a relationship between the prices a non-member of a book club paid for various publications and the prices that a member paid for the same publications. The data gathered is shown below. Compute the value of the correlation coefficient.

• A) 0.762
• B) 0.857
• C) 0.679
• D) 0.932

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