Mr. Jones, a sixth grade science teacher, has tried to predict his students' end-of-the-year grades by looking at their grades from the previous year. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any systematic relationship between these two variables. The co

A) near zero
B) positive
C) negative
D) near 1.0


Answer: A
Rationale: If there is little to no pattern in the relationship between two variables, the correlation coefficient will be close to zero.

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