Simister and Cooper decided to find out if there is a relationship between crime and the weather

They obtained data on temperatures and criminal activity in Los Angeles over a four-year period. When they graphed air temperature and the frequency of aggravated assaults, they found that assaults and temperatures rise and fall more or less in parallel. Therefore, knowing the temperature in Los Angeles now allows us to
a. predict the number of aggravated assaults.
b. explain why aggravated assaults occur.
c. prevent aggravated assaults from occurring.
d. do all of these.


ANSWER: a

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