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As a project for a psychology course, a student correlated weight and intelligence scores for 250 students. The computed correlation coefficient was .00. What did the scatter plot look like?


a line with a positive slope


a random distribution of points


a line with a negative slope


a straight line from the lower left to the upper right-hand corner

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i think the scatter plot will look like :
A random distribution of points
the correlation coefficient will be close to one when its closer to being a straight line

hope this helps

Answer:

a random distribution of points  

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the correlation coefficient is equal to 0.

This means there is no relation between student weight and intelligence scores.

Hence the graph will be a random distribution of points.

Further, The value of Correlation Coefficient lies between -1 to +1.

If the value of correlation lies between -1 to 0 then it is known as a negative correlation.  Hence, it has a line with a positive slope.

and, If the value of correlation lies between 0 to 1 then it is known as a positive correlation.  Hence, it has a line with a negative slope.

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