A newspaper article claims that the academic rank of a college is negatively related to the rank of its football team. From a sample of 28 colleges, you obtain a correlation coefficient of -.32. Answer and explain each of the following questions.

• Which type of correlation coefficient did you compute?
• What are the null and the alternative hypotheses?
• With = .05, what is the critical value?
• What should you conclude about the accuracy of the newspaper's claim?
• In predicting a particular school's academic ranking in your sample, how important is it that you look at the school's football ranking?