Edexcel S1 2005 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2005
SessionJune
TopicBivariate data
TypeEstimate correlation from scatter diagram

  1. The scatter diagrams below were drawn by a student.
$$\begin{aligned} & y \underset { x } { \begin{array} { l l l l } & &
+ & & &
+ & + & + &
+ & + & + \end{array} } \end{aligned}$$ The student calculated the value of the product moment correlation coefficient for each of the sets of data. The values were $$\begin{array} { l l l } 0.68 & - 0.79 & 0.08 \end{array}$$ Write down, with a reason, which value corresponds to which scatter diagram.
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