The StudentSurvey dataset includes scores on the Math and Verbal portions of the SAT exam.
(a) What would a positive relationship between these two variables imply about SAT scores? What would a negative relationship imply?

(b) Figure 2.59 shows a scatterplot of these two variables. For each corner of the scatterplot (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right), describe a student whose SAT scores place him or her in that corner.

Figure 2.59

(c) Does there appear to be a strong linear relationship between these two variables? What does that tell you about SAT scores?
(d) Which of the following is most likely to be the correlation between these two variables?

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