If the correlation coefficient is 0.87, what is the explained variation?

Question

a. 12.3%

b. 37.2%

c. 53.3%

d. 75.7%

e. 88.4%

or is it none of these ?

Answer 1

Correlation coefficient = r = 0.87
Explained variation = r^2 = 0.7569 = 75.7%
Answer d.