If the correlation between the number of siblings one has and their college GPA is .86, then we could:

A. explain why students who are the only child do so poorly in college
B. explain why students who are the only child do so well in college
C. predict that students who have several siblings will have higher GPAs
D. predict that students who have no siblings will have higher GPAs


Answer: C

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