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The scatterplot below shows the relationship between the ages of women when they ﬁrst married
and the ages when they had their ﬁrst child. The correlation coefﬁcient between the values is
-Would it be appropriate to say that the age at which a woman ﬁrst marries causes her to have her ﬁrst child after that age?
A)Yes, the scatterplot shows a strong linear association, so the older a woman is when she ﬁrst marries, the older she will be when she has her ﬁrst child.
B)Yes, since the correlation coefﬁcient is close to 1, we can conclude causation.
C)No, since the correlation coefﬁcient does not equal 1, we cannot conclude causation.
D)No, correlation never implies causation.

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Correlation measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables, but it does not imply that one variable causes the changes in another. Causation requires a more rigorous experimental or analytical approach to establish a cause-and-effect relationship.

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