A Study of Traffic Safety Shows a Correlation of 0

Multiple Choice

A study of traffic safety shows a correlation of 0.57 between average speed of traffic and number of fatal accidents for a particular stretch of highway. This means that________.

A) drivers should speed up to get through this area as quickly as possible.
B) as speed increases, fatalities decrease.
C) fatalities tend to increase as average speed increases.
D) every 1 mile per hour increase in average speed increases the number of traffic fatalities by .57.