Question

A study examined the relationship between years spent smoking and attitudes toward quitting by asking participants to rate their optimism for the success of a treatment program. If there were a negative relationship between these variables, what should the results of the study be like?
1. The fewer years spent smoking, the fewer participants they could find.
2. The fewer years spent smoking, the less optimistic for success.
3. The more years spent smoking, the less optimistic for success
4. The more years spent smoking, the more optimistic for success.

Answer 1

Answer: 3. The more years spent smoking, the less optimistic for success

Explanation:

Two variables having a negative relationship means that they have an inverse correlation: if one of the variables decreases, the other one rises, if one variable rises, the other one decreases.

In this example, those who have spent more years smoking (a variable that rises), are less optimistic about the success of treatment (the variable that decreases).

Answer 2

Answer:

3. the more years spent smoking, the less optimistic for success.

Explanation:

                     Smoking is habit and it is generally difficult to quit smoking habit if smoked for  quite a number of years. Smoking is considered harmful to health.

                     A study is done to examined the relationship between the years of smoking and the attitude of the participants asked to quit smoking and rate their optimism on the success of the treatment program.

                      It is seen that the more numbers of years spend on smoking, it becomes less optimistic for the success of the treatment program.

Thus the answer is

3. the more years spent smoking, the less optimistic for success.