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AP®︎/College Statistics

Course: AP®︎/College Statistics > Unit 5

Lesson 2: Correlation
Math
AP®︎/College Statistics
Exploring two-variable quantitative data
Correlation
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Correlation coefficient intuition

AP.STATS: DAT‑1 (EU), DAT‑1.B (LO), DAT‑1.B.1 (EK), DAT‑1.C (LO), DAT‑1.C.1 (EK) CCSS.Math: HSS.ID.C.8
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Problem

Match the correlation coefficients with the scatterplots shown below.
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start color #1fab54, start text, S, c, a, t, t, e, r, p, l, o, t, space, A, end text, end color #1fab54start color #ca337c, start text, S, c, a, t, t, e, r, p, l, o, t, space, B, end text, end color #ca337c
start color #e07d10, start text, S, c, a, t, t, e, r, p, l, o, t, space, C, end text, end color #e07d10start color #11accd, start text, S, c, a, t, t, e, r, p, l, o, t, space, D, end text, end color #11accd
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