Eric has collected data on the relationship between the number of hours the employees at a large number of corporate headquarters spend working on their computers and the profits of the corporations.His scatter diagram of the data shows it clusters near a line running from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.This shows the correlation is
A) variable.
B) zero.
C) positive.
D) negative.

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The scatter diagram shows a line running from the bottom right to the top left, indicating that as one variable increases, the other decreases, which is characteristic of a negative correlation.

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