Sports and Leisure
The owner of a snow tubing resort in the Pocono Mountains believes that the total snowfall (x, in feet) during a winter is related to the number of customers (y, in thousands). A random sample of winters was obtained, and the data were recorded.
a. Construct a scatter plot for these data, and describe the relationship between the two variables.
b. Compute Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, and use this value to describe the relationship between the two variables.
c. Explain any differences in your answers to parts (a) and (b).