A medical sociologist investigated the relationship between severity of illness (X) and length of stay in a hospital (Y). Choosing eight patients at random, she ranked the seriousness of their ailment and determined the number of days they were hospitalized. Her results were as follows:

Compute a rank-order correlation coefficient and indicate whether there is a significant relationship between X and Y.

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