Is the magnitude of an earthquake related to the depth below the surface at whic

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Is the magnitude of an earthquake related to the depth below the surface at which the quake occurs? Let x be the magnitude of an earthquake (on the Richter scale), and let y be the depth (in kilometers) of the quake below the surface at the epicenter. Suppose a random sample of earthquakes gave the following information Given the scatter diagram and "best fit" line for the data below, would you say the correlation is low, moderate, or strong? Positive or negative? moderate and positive strong and negative low and positive strong and positive low and negative

Explanation / Answer

Here we have given that,

x: magnitude of the earthquake

y: depth of the quake below the surface at the epicenter.

Here this scatter plot shows moderate and positive corriation between this X and Y

because x value is increses and y value is also increses.thats why here strong and positive relationship between x and y.

here option (D) is correct.

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