The correlation coefficient between the hours that a person is awake during a 24-hour period And the hours that same person is asleep during a 24-hour period is most likely to be
A)near -0.8
B)exactly -1.0
C)exactly +1.0
D)near 0
E)near +0.8

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The correlation coefficient between hours awake and hours asleep in a 24-hour period is exactly -1.0 because they are perfectly negatively correlated; as one increases, the other decreases by the same amount.

The Correlation Coefficient Between the Hours That a Person Is