For each of a number of cities across Canada, the number of people with Cantonese as a mother tongue and the number of people with Mandarin as a mother tongue were rocorded. A scatterplot of the data...

For each of a number of cities across Canada, the number of people with Cantonese as a mother tongue and the number of people with Mandarin as a mother tongue were rocorded. A scatterplot of the data is shown in the figure below. The correlation between the number of Cantonese speakers in a city aud the number of Mandarin speakers is 0.980. Do you think this correlation is a reasonable summary of the relationship? Why, or why not?

(a) If the two largest cities (Toronto and Vancouver) were removed, the correlation would be even higher.

(b) No, because there are outliers and/or influential points.

(c) Yes, because the relationship is more or less linear.

(d) No, because the relationship is clearly curved.

(e) Yes, because there are no influential points.