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1.For each of 200 randomly selected cities, Gary recorded the number of churches in the
city (x) and the number of homicides in the past decade (y). He calculated the linear
correlation coefficient and was surprised to find a strong positive linear correlation for
the two variables. Does this suggest that building new churches causes an increase in
the number of homicides? Why do you think that a strong positive linear correlation
coefficient was obtained? Explain your answer with reference to the term lurking
variable.