QUESTION 7

If aCorrelation matrix shows that the association between the IV - the percentage of residents of a state (in the US) who have graduated from high school and the DV - the percentage of murders committed with firearms in a state is -.271, with an associated sig. of .001,explain how you understand the relationship between the Independent variable and the Dependent variable.

NOTE: If you want to look the data that this question is based on, the dataset is: Crime &Demographics50 states.sav - and is linked in the Assignmentsfolder.