Alan Bissell,market Analyst for City Sound Mart,is Analyzing the Relation

Multiple Choice

Alan Bissell,market analyst for City Sound Mart,is analyzing the relation between heavy metal CD sales and the size of the teenage population.He gathers data from six sales districts.Alan's dependent variable is annual heavy metal CD sales (in $1,000,000's) ,and his independent variable is teenage population (in 1,000's) .Regression analysis of the data yielded the following tables. The numerical value of the correlation coefficient between the CD sales and the size of teenage population is ___.

A) 0.969785
B) 0.940483
C) 0.224675
D) -0.14156
E) 1.000000