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priya exercises and stops every so often to record the number of steps she has taken and her heart rate. when she gets home, she creates a scatter plot showing the relationship between the number of steps and her heart rate. the correlation coefficient for the data is 0.88. a. describe the correlation as strong or weak and positive or negative. strong positive weak positive strong negative weak negative explain your reasoning.

Explanation:

The correlation coefficient (r) is 0.88. A positive r indicates a positive relationship, and values close to 1 (typically ≥0.7) indicate a strong correlation. Thus, 0.88 is a strong positive correlation.

Answer:

strong positive