Question 511457: . Answer the following:
- If the correlation coefficient is -0.15, what is the sign of the slope of the regression line?
- As the correlation coefficient decreases from -0.85 to -0.88, do the points of the scatter plot move toward the regression line, or away from it?
Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1. negative, because the correlation coefficient is negative
2. The points, on average, move closer to the line because the r-value gets closer to -1.
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