A college professor reports that students who finish exams early tend to get better grades than students who hold on to exams until the last possible moment.The correlation between exam score and amount of time spent on the exam is an example of
A)a positive correlation.
B)a negative correlation.
C)a correlation near zero.
D)a correlation near one.

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A negative correlation implies that as one variable increases, the other decreases. In this case, as the amount of time spent on the exam increases, the exam score tends to decrease, indicating a negative correlation.

A College Professor Reports That Students Who Finish Exams Early