Ms. Sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. The table shows her data

The below is to complete the question. I manage to check from other source the data that suppose to accompanied in you question:

How does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest?

A) Word count tends to decrease as the score decreases.

B) Word count tends to increase as the score decreases.

C) Word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases.

D) Word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

The answer is D.