Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question. A humanities professor is interesting in learning whether there is a positive association between average online homework scores and the final class average in an online humanities course. The computer output below shows the results from a regression model in which the final class average was predicted by the average online homework score. Assume that the conditions of the linear regression model are satisfied.

-Choose the correct null and alternative hypothesis to test whether there is an association between final class average and average online homework scores.

A) H0: The correlation is positive. Ha: The correlation is zero.
B) H0: There is no linear association between the final class average and the average online homework score. H_a: There is a positive linear association between the final class average and the average online homework score.
C) H0: There is a linear association between the final class average and the average online homework score. H_a: There is no linear association between the final class average and the average online homework score.
D) None of these.