An electric company compared the speed of wind and the number of power outages. The electric company determined the correlation coefficient of each wind speed to the number of power outages was r= 0.94.

Question

Is there a strong or weak relationship between the wind speed and the number of power outages?

Answer 1

Based on the correlation coefficient of r = 0.94, there is a strong positive relationship between the wind speed and the number of power outages.