Below you will find thetable of correlations for current annual salary data and related information for 30 employees at Gamma Technologies, Inc. These data include each selected employees' gender (1 for female; 0 for male), age, number of years of relevant work experience prior to employment at Gamma, number of years of employment at Gamma, the number of years of post-secondary education, and annual salary.

Table of Correlations:

GenderAgePrior ExpGamma ExpEducationSalaryGender1Age-0.1111Prior Exp0.0540.81Gamma Exp-0.2030.9160.5871Education-0.0390.5180.4340.3421Salary-0.1540.9230.7230.870.6171

Answer the following two questions separately:

(1)Which two variables have the strongest linear relationship with annual salary? And why? (4 points)

(2) How would you characterize the relationship between gender and annual salary? And why? (4 points)