Use the Table to Answer Questions 49 and 50

question 51

Multiple Choice

Use the table to answer questions 49 and 50.
An ecologist is studying the relationship between a beetle species and a flower species. She examines six plants and counts the number of beetles and the number of flowers on each plant.

-Which of the following terms best describes the data?

• A) positive linear correlation
• B) negative linear correlation
• C) positive curvilinear correlation
• D) negative curvilinear correlation

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