Use the Table Below to Answer the Following Questions -What Is the Correlation Between the Variables?
A) About 0

question 52

Multiple Choice

Use the table below to answer the following Questions . $\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l l } \text { Temperature in degrees } F ( y ) & 70 & 72 & 74 & 75 & 81 & 82 & 83 & 84 & 89 & 93 \\\text { Chirps per second } ( x ) & 15 & 15 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 17 & 16 & 17 & 19 & 20\end{array}$
-What is the correlation between the variables?

• A) about 0.99
• B) about 0.94
• C) about 0.70
• D) about 0.50

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