Becky is an experienced swimmer. The table contains data on her times in the 100-meter freestyle event for each year over the past six years.


Year Time

(seconds)

1 98

2 101

3 109

4 117

5 119

6 127


Sketch a scatter plot for this data, and then determine which of these numbers is the closest to the correlation coefficient for the data set.

a.0.20

b.0.99

c.-0.20

d.-0.83

e.-1.01