Which One of the Following Factor Loadings Would Lead to a Recommendation

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following factor loadings would lead to a recommendation to discard a variable in a factor?

A) bivariate scatterplots that suggest a linear relationship between variables
B) R squared values, computed from a regression model for an individual variable where that variable is the dependent variable and all remaining variables are the independent variables, which are near zero
C) statistically significant Mahalanobis distance scores
D) units that have been randomly sampled from a population