As part of a high school science experiment, Simon measures the height and birth month (numbered from 1 to 12) of 50 of his classmates. However, after computing the correlation coefficient, he finds that the two measures are not correlated

The value he computed is closest to
A) 0.9.
B) 0.2.
C) 0.
D) -0.5.


C) 0. A correlation coefficient of 0 means that two variables are not correlated.

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