Shown are the number of students enrolled in cyber school for five randomly selected school districts and the per-pupil costs for the cyber school education. At α = 0.10, is there a relationship between the two variables? How might this information be useful to school administrators?

Perform these steps.
a. Find the Spearman rank correlation coefficient.
b. State the hypotheses.
c. Find the critical value. Use α = 0.05.
d. Make the decision.
e. Summarize the results.
Use the traditional method of hypothesis testing unless otherwise specified.

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Number of students 110 6 17 8 ii Per-pupil cost 7200 9393 7385 4500 8203