Question

Below you will find current annual salary data and related information for 30 employees at Gamma Technologies, Inc. These data include each selected employees gender (1 for female; 0 for male), age, number of years of relevant work experience prior to employment at Gamma, number of years of employment at Gamma, the number of years of post-secondary education, and annual salary. The tables of correlations and covariances are presented below.

Table of Correlations

	IQ	Age	Prior Exp	Gamma Exp	Education	Salary
IQ	1.000
Age	-0.111	1.000
Prior Exp	0.054	0.800	1.000
Gamma Exp	-0.203	0.616	0.587	1.000
Education	-0.039	0.518	0.434	0.342	1.000
Salary	-0.154	0.623	0.723	0.880	0.617	1.000

Table of Covariances (variances on the diagonal)

	Gender	Age	Prior Exp	Gamma Exp	Education	Salary
Gender	0.259
Age	-0.633	134.051
Prior Exp	0.117	39.060	19.045
Gamma Exp	-0.700	72.047	17.413	49.421
Education	-0.033	9.951	3.140	3.987	2.947
Salary	-1825.97	249700.35	73699.75	14303.29	24747.68	584640062

Answer 1

Which two variables have the strongest positive linear relationship?

Gamma experience and salary