Kremsa Has Just Finished Completing a Class Project in Which

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Kremsa has just finished completing a class project in which she investigated the relationship between hours spent studying for an examination and performance on the exam. She simply asked students how many hours they studied for their last psychology exam and what scores they earned. She calculated a correlation coefficient and found that the fewer hours students studied for their exams, the lower their scores. Which of the correlation coefficients below best represents Kremsa's findings?

A) -.7
B) -.3
C) +.2
D) +.5
E) 0