You give a pre-employment examination to your applicants. The test is scored from 1 to 100. You have data on their sales at the end of one year measured in dollars. You want to know if there is any linear relationship between pre-employment examination score and sales. An appropriate test to use is the t test on the population correlation coefficient.

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The t test on the population correlation coefficient is used to test the hypothesis that there is or is not a significant linear relationship between two variables. In this case, the variables are the pre-employment examination score and sales, and the test is appropriate to determine if there is a linear relationship between these variables or not.

You Give a Pre-Employment Examination to Your Applicants