1. An environmental science student is told that the amount of household garbage collected and city population are linearly. The student obtains data on population and annual waste collection from 20 mid-sized Ontario cities in hopes of finding a statistical model to predict the amount of garbage produced as a function of population. What is the appropriate statistical test?

One sample t-test

Dependent samples t-test

Two independent samples t-test

ANOVA

Pearson's product moment correlation

Least squares regression

Contingency table (Independence

Contingency table (Homogeneity)