A study about high school student SAT scores reported that a student's SAT Math score has a strong positive linear association with his/her SAT Verbal score. What can you determine about the relationship between SAT Math scores and SAT Verbal scores?
A)No conclusions can be drawn without seeing a scatterplot of the data.
B)Students who are like Math also like Verbal.
C)If a student's SAT Math score decreases, his SAT Verbal score will also decrease.
D)Students with higher SAT Math scores tend to have higher SAT Verbal scores.

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A strong positive linear association indicates that as one variable increases, the other tends to increase as well. Therefore, students with higher SAT Math scores tend to have higher SAT Verbal scores.

A Study About High School Student SAT Scores Reported That