Question

Becky is an experienced swimmer. The table contains data on her times in the 100-meter freestyle event for each year over the past six years.

Year Time
(seconds)
1 98
2 101
3 109
4 117
5 119
6 127

Sketch a scatter plot for this data, and then determine which of these numbers is the closest to the correlation coefficient for the data set.
a.0.20
b.0.99
c.-0.20
d.-0.83
e.-1.01