Asports physiologist randomly selected 48 athletes and measured both their weight and how much weight they could lift. she found the correlation coefficient for these two variables to be r=0.850 . which of the following can be concluded, based on this information?

a. on average, an athlete can lift 85% of his body weight.
b. if one athlete weighs 1 pound more than another, he can expect to lift 0.850 pounds more than the other.
c. the more an athlete weighs, the more he can lift, on average.
d. 85% of the athlete's lifting ability can be attributed to his weight.