Imagine that your computer program has provided the following pairs of test scores received by five different children. The correlation coefficient between these two sets of test scores would increase if you did not include the scores received by:

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Imagine that your computer program has provided the following pairs of test scores received by five different children.  The correlation coefficient between these two sets of test scores would increase if you did not include the scores received by:

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To find out which student's scores should be excluded to increase the correlation coefficient, we can calculate the correlation coefficient for each possible pair of students and see which one has the lowest value. If we exclude Jordan's scores, the correlation coefficient increases from -0.84 to -0.97, which is the highest increase compared to excluding the scores of all other students. Therefore, the best choice is B) Jordan.

Imagine That Your Computer Program Has Provided the Following Pairs