Are the years of education of a child dependent on the years of education of their parent? The table shows the number of years of education of parent and the number of years of education of their child. Years of Education of Parent Years of Education of their Child 13 13 9 11 7 7 12 16 12 17 10 9 11 17 Determine the correlation coefficient and briefly describe the relationship between the two variables. r = -0.773 Looking at the scatterplot and the correlation coefficient, there appears to be a negative linear correlation between the variables. r=0.773 Looking at the scatterplot and the correlation coefficient, there appears to be no correlation between the two variables.. r=0.773 Looking at the scatterplot and the correlation coefficient, there appears to be a positive linear correlation between the variables. Or= -0.773 Looking at the scatterplot and the correlation coefficient, there appears to be no linear correlation between the variables.