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A statistical study of elementary school students shows a strong positive correlation between shoe size (\(x\)) and reading comprehension scores (\(y\)).
  1. Explain whether this correlation implies that having larger feet causes an improvement in reading skills.
  2. Identify a likely confounding variable that explains why these two variables increase together.

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