In a scatterplot, if each x-value was decreased by one unit and the y-values remained the same, then the correlation would...

stay the same.

decrease by 1 unit.

decrease slightly.

increase slightly.

be indeterminable.

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Consider the three points (2,11), (3,17), and (4,29). Given any straight line, we can calculate the sum of the squares of the three vertical distances from these points to the line. What is the smallest possible value this sum can be?

6

9

29

57

Cannot be determined.

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