John made a scatter plot representing the hours each of his class mates spent studying and their scores on their final exams john should expect the data to have negative correlation? True or false

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John made a scatter plot representing the hours each of his class mates spent studying and their scores on their final exams john should expect the data to have negative correlation? True or false 

 

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The more hours spent on studying the more scores on the final exams.

It means function of their scores and hours spent on their study, will be increasing.

For increasing function derivative or correlation must be positive.

For decreasing function derivative or correlation must be negative.

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