Imagine that you have a table of data showing the povertypercentages (POVERTY) and the average readingtest scores (SCORE) for various elementary schools in your city. It shows that schools with high poverty percentages tend to get lower average reading scores than do schools with low levels of poverty. Which of the following statements would be correct?

a. POVERTY is the explanatory variable, SCORE is the response variable, and the correlation between them would be positive.

b. POVERTY is the response variable, SCORE is the explanatory variable, and the correlation between them would be negative.

c. POVERTY is the explanatory variable, SCORE is the response variable, and the correlation between them would be negative.

d. POVERTY is the response variable, SCORE is the explanatory variable, and the correlation between them would be positive.