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The table below shows the temperature in degrees for eight consecutive days as well as the respective number of ice cream cones an ice cream shop sold on each of these days.


Temperature: 68 77 83 85 89 94 96 99

Number of cones: 403 447 457 465 489 503 543 576


What is the correlation coefficient of the set of data? Round your answer to the nearest thousand.


A) 0.956

B) -0.972

C) 0.019

D) 0.508