Bill has analyzed data from a study investigating the relationship between the number of books that a child has read per month and the number of words that a child knows, r = 0.3, p<.05. What is the percent of variance in the number of words that a child knows that is accounted for by the number of books read per month?
a. 95%
b. 30%
c. 9%
d. Less than 5%
Answer: c. 9%
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What will be an ideal response?
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