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12. Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease that results in a skin rash and flulike symptoms. It is transmitted through the bite of an infected deer tick. Data is collected in a rural county of the United States by month for the no. of cases of Lyme Disease (X) and the no. of drowning deaths (Y). A scatterplot for the data is displayed below, and the correlation coefficient is computed to ber = 0.961. Lyme Disease and Drownings 18 16 No. of Drownings UT 10 15 20 25 Cases of Lyme Disease The county sheriff announces that Lyme disease causes people to be more at risk for drowning. Choose the best answer below: (1.5 pts) a. The sheriff is correct. High correlation makes it clear that having Lyme disease causes swimmers to be more susceptible to drowning . The sheriff is correct. If R2 = 0.93 so that 93% of all variation in the number of drownings can be explained by the no. of cases of Lyme disease, then we can conclude that a higher number of cases of Lyme disease will cause drownings to increase c. The sheriff is incorrect. It is actually the number of drownings that are causing more people to get Lyme disease. d. The sheriff is incorrect. This is an observational study and there are many possible lurking variables that have not been considered which could lead to more drownings