The owner of a local ice-cream shop in a small tourist town realized that when hotel occupancy is up, sales in her ice-cream shop are also up. The relationship between hotel occupancy rate and ice-cream sales is an example of a(n) ______.
A) dependent variable
B) independent variable
C) hypothesis
D) correlation

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The relationship between hotel occupancy rate and ice-cream sales is an example of a correlation, as it shows how two variables are related to each other, in this case positively, meaning when one goes up, so does the other.

The Owner of a Local Ice-Cream Shop in a Small