Suppose Texas A & M UniversityCommerce has five scholarships available for the womens basketball team. The head

Suppose Texas A & M University—Commerce has five scholarships available for the women’s basketball team. The head coach provided the two assistant coaches with the names of 10 high school players with potential to play at the university. Each assistant coach attended three games and then ranked the 10 players with respect to potential. To explain, the first coach ranked Norma Tidwell as the best player among the 10 scouted and Jeannie Black the worst.

a. Determine Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
b. At the .05 significance level, can we conclude there is a positive association between theranks?

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Rank, by Assistant Coach Jean Cann John CannelliPlayer Rank, by Assistant Coach Jean Cann John Cannelli Player Cora Jean Seiple 7 Bette Jones Jeannie Black Norma Tidwell Kathy Marchal Candy Jenkins Rita Rosinski Anita Lockes Brenda Towne Denise Ober 10 10