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A manufacturing company produces engines for light aircraft. The graph shows the number of engines produced each year since the company started operations.

A dot plot graph shows an Engine Production on year and Engines Produced. The points plotted at (1, 45), (2, 60), (3, 75), (4, 82), (5, 90), (6, 110), (7, 120), and (8, 138).

If a good linear model for the data set is determined using technology, which phrase most likely describes the value of the correlation coefficient, r?