. 13. The Human Resources department of a com-
pany tracks employee sick day usage to see if
there are patterns. One of the HR representa-
tives decides to check employee sick day usage
against outside temperature. He compiles the
information for the employees' sick day us-
age and temperature in the scatterplot above.
Which of the following conclusions can be
draw based on this data?
A) There is no relationship between the
number of sick days used by employees
in general and outside temperature.
B) There is no relationship between the
number of sick days used by this compa-
ny's employees and outside temperature.
C) No conclusions can be drawn about the
number of sick days used by this compa-
psy's employees and outside temperature,
D) There is a relationship between, but not
causation by, the number of sick days
used by this company's employees and
outside temperature.