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Please explain the correct answer

Malaria is a leading cause of infectious disease and death worldwide. It is also a popular example of a vector-borne disease that could be greatly affected by the influence of climate change. The scatterplot shows total precipitation (in \( \mathrm{mm} \) ) in select cities in West Africa on the \( x \) axis and the percent of people who tested positive for malaria in the select cities on the \( y \) axis in 2000 . The correlation between precipitation and percent who tested positive for malaria is probably close to Select one: a. 1 b. \( 0.9^{x} \) c. \( -0.9 \) d. 0