On an international exam, students are asked to respond to a variety of backgrou

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On an international exam, students are asked to respond to a variety of background questions. For the 41 nations that participated in the exam, the correlation between the percentage of items answered in the background questionnaire (used as a proxy for student task persistence) and mean score on the exam was 0.709. Does this suggest there is a linear relation between student task persistence and achievement score? Write a sentence that explains what this result might mean. BEE Click the icon to view the critical values table. Does this suggest there is a linear relation between student task persistence and achievement score? Choose the best response below. O A. Yes, since lo 7o9 is less than the critical value for 30. O B. No, since lo 709 is greater than the critical value for 30 O C. No, since lo 709l is less than the critical value for 30 O D. Yes, since lo 709 is greater than the critical value for 30 What does this result mean? O A. Countries in which students answered a greater percentage of items in the background questionnaire tended to have higher mean scores on the exam O B. Countries in which students cheated on the exam also cheated on the items in the background questionnaire. O C. Countries in which students answered a lesser percentage of items in the background questionnaire tended to have higher mean scores on the exam. D. here is no linear relation between countries in which students answered a greater percentage of items in the background questionnaire and higher mean scores on the exam

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D). Yes, since 0.709 is greater than the critical value for 30.

(critical value for 30 is 0.361)

A. countries in which students answered a greater percentage of items in the background questionnaire tended to have higher mean scores on the exam.

( There is a positive correlation)

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