A perfect straight line sloping downward would produce a correlation coefficient equal to:
A) +1.0
B) -1.0
C) 0.0
D) Cannot tell from the information given.

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A perfect straight line sloping downward represents a negative correlation. The correlation coefficient for a perfect negative correlation is -1.0. However, the options given only include positive values, so the answer would be the closest negative value to -1.0, which is option B, approximately equal to -1.0.

A Perfect Straight Line Sloping Downward Would Produce a Correlation