For her senior research project Jerri collects survey data on the number of hours spent on social networking and grade point average GPA). She creates a scatterplot to graph her results. If the pattern of dots on her scatterplot goes from lower left to upper right, what would this indicate?
A) that the relationship is strong
B) that it is a positive relationship
C) that it is a negative relationship
D) that people who spend a lot of time social networking tend to have a lower GPA

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A scatterplot that shows a pattern of dots going from the lower left to the upper right indicates a positive relationship, meaning as one variable increases, the other variable also increases. In this case, as the number of hours spent on social networking increases, the GPA also increases.

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