The Wnear correlation between violent crime rate and percentage of the populatio

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The Wnear correlation between violent crime rate and percentage of the population that has a cell phone is -0.918 for years since 1995. Do you believe that increasing the percentage ot the population that has a cell phone will decrease the violent crime rate? What might be alurking variable between percentage of the population with acelphone and violent onme WM increasing the percentage of the population that has a cell phone decrease the violent crime rate? Choose the best option below. O Yes O No What might be a lurking variable between percentage otthe population with acellphone and violent aime rate? O A. the economy O B. the police O C. the average cell phone's effectiveness as a weapon O D. overain ceu phone signal strength Enter Caps Lock

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Answer to questions in the first image:

1.

YES.
Since negative correlation is pretty strong. Increaseing 1 will decrease
the 2nd

2.
A- the economy is increases as commnucation thorugh more mobile phones makes
communications faster. Hence, crime rate decrease due to better economy as
maybe increase in economy means less employments

B - More mobile phone would have no effect on police
C - If this were to be true, more cellphones would have meant more violent crime rates
D- again, doesn't seem to be the answer

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