Over the past few years, the Office Furniture Manufacturing industry in Canada has seen an increase in the demand for office furniture. The general belief is that more companies in Canada have moved to the hybrid system $($remote and in$-$person work$)$ during and after the COVID$-19$ pandemic, and this caused workers to get office furniture for their homes. To assess this, Colin collected monthly data on the number of companies in Canada that moved to the hybrid system and sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022.$

Part I

Colin plots a scatterplot for the data and obtains a correlation coefficient $()$ of $-0\mathrm{.}19.$ What is the most appropriate interpretation of the correlation coefficient?

There is virtually no linear relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

There is a strong linear positive relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

There is virtually no relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

There is a strong linear negative relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

There is a weak linear negative relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

There is a weak linear positive relationship between the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system and the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022$

Part II

If Colin decides to fit a linear regression to the data set, the response will be

the number of Canadian companies that moved to the hybrid system from $2020-2022.$

the sales of office furniture in Canada from $2020-2022.$

None of the above