Assuming the following data, what is the correlation coefficient and how would this be interpreted?

Variance of x = 8.02 Variance of y = 2.30

(A) 0.961, very high positive correlation

(B) 0.121, very little correlation

(C) –0.961, very high negative correlation (D) –0.121, very low negative correlation (E) 0.690, some positive correlation

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Circumstance Probability (x-x) (y-y) I 0.2 -3.0 -1.5 II 0.5 +1.0 +0.8 III 0.3 +5.0 +2.5