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Twelve points are plotted in a scattered increasing curved pattern in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane with x and y axes. The x-axis is labeled as Time Spent Studying and y-axis as Scores on a Test.
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Based on the data, which of the following choices would be the best estimated correlation coefficient?

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0.75
0.75

1
1

0.98
0.98

−0.98

negative 0.98
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0.75

The points show a clear positive relationship but are not perfectly (or nearly perfectly) linear, so a strong but not extremely high positive correlation like 0.75 is the best estimate.