In which of the following scenarios would one most likely find a correlation coefficient of zero or close to zero?
A. age correlated with the cost of life insurance
B. age of cars correlated with their trade-in values
C. intelligence correlated with grades in arithmetic
D. shoe sizes of adult males correlated with their salaries
Answer: D
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