Which of the following pairs is the most likely to exhibit an inverse relationship?
A) The amount of time you study and your grade point average.
B) People's annual income and their expenditure on personal computers.
C) Baseball players' salaries and their batting averages.
D) The price of a concert and the number of tickets people want to purchase .

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An inverse relationship means that as one variable increases, the other decreases. The price of a concert and the number of tickets people want to purchase typically exhibit this relationship: as the price increases, fewer people are likely to buy tickets, and vice versa.

Which of the Following Pairs Is the Most Likely to Exhibit