meredith interviews all of the students of her school who took both ap tests and the sat. she finds that the relationship between the number of ap tests and sat scores is linearly associated with a correlation coefficient of 0.93. what does this value suggest about the relationship between the number of ap tests and sat scores?

a. the number of ap tests increases as sat scores increase.
b. sat scores decrease as the number of ap tests increase.
c. there is no relationship between the number of ap tests and sat scores.
d. the number of ap tests decreases as sat scores increase