A professor gives a class of 40 people his five item measure of conscientiousness (e. g., "I get chore done right away," I follow a schedule," "I do not make a mess of things). Average scores are correlated (r - -.20) with how many times each student has been late to class during the semester.

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.

The answer is: m > -4