A Group of Garden Enthusiasts Are Growing Beans $200 \mathrm{sq}$ $\mathrm{ft}$

Multiple Choice

A group of garden enthusiasts are growing beans. The first number in parenthesis is the ounces of fertilizer used in a community garden plot with an area of $200 \mathrm{sq}$ . $\mathrm{ft}$ ., the second number is the pounds of beans harvested in the plot: $(12,50) ,(6,36) ,(20,60) ,(5,24) ,(38,70) ,(3,24) ,(8,42) ,(20,65) ,(10,40) ,(15$ , $60)$ . Your best guess of the correlation coefficient between the two variables is

A) positive, may be 1.3
B) negative, may be -1.4
C) positive, but less than 1.0
D) negative, but greater than -1.0
E) cannot tell because of lack of specification as to which variable is correlated with which