42 No Save Pause End Test For the last five years Mahiya has collected data on the population and the number of supermarkets in her city Mahiya finds the regression equation for the data using x for the number of supermarkets and y for the number of people in hundreds of thousands The equation is y 2 14x 0 63 with a correlation coefficient of 0 84 Given her data which conclusion can Mahiya make ASince the correlation coefficient is positive she can conclude that the population of her city and the number of supermarkets are negatively correlated B Since the correlation coefficient is positive she can conclude that the population of her city and the number of supermarkets are positively correlated Since the correlation coefficient is positive she can conclude that the increase in the number of supermarkets population