- A fair coin is tossed three times (consecutively). If X is the number of heads of the first shot and Y is the random variables representing the total number of heads, what is the correlation coefficient of X and Y? calculate. A) -0.707 B) -0.577 C) 0.577 D) 0.866

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30 - A fair coin is tossed three times (consecutively). If X is the number of heads of the first shot and Y is the random variables representing the total number of heads, what is the correlation coefficient of X and Y? calculate.
A) -0.707

B) -0.577

C) 0.577

D) 0.866


E) 0.707

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