If a negative correlation between two sets of scores is displayed as a scatterplot,the points are clustered in a pattern that

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In a negative correlation, as one variable increases, the other decreases. This produces a scatterplot with a cluster of points that extend from the upper left to the lower right, as one variable increases on the x-axis and the other decreases on the y-axis. Choice D represents this pattern.

If a Negative Correlation Between Two Sets of Scores Is