A reporter studied the causes of a fire to a house,and established thanks to a scatterplot a strong correlation between the damages (in dollars)and the number of firefighters at the scene.Find the lurking variable,if there is one.
A)Size of the blaze
B)Size of the house
C)Weather
D)Firefighters
E)No lurking variable

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The size of the blaze is a lurking variable because a larger fire would both cause more damage and require more firefighters, explaining the correlation without directly being part of it.

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