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Sarah wanted to investigate whether there was a correlation between weekly physical exercise and self-reported mood levels.

She randomly selected six members at a local health club who kept detailed logs of their weekly routines. At the end of a typical week, she recorded their weekly exercise hours and asked them to rate their average daily mood.

Sarah asked the members to rate their daily mood on a scale of 1 to 5 (where 1 was very low mood and 5 was very high mood).

The results of Sarah's study are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Raw scores for weekly exercise hours and self-reported mood

MemberWeekly exercise (hours)Self-reported mood score
A55
B23
C44
D11
E33
F23

Complete Table 2 and calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between the weekly exercise hours and the self-reported mood score. Round your final answer to two decimal places.

Table 2: Calculation of Spearman's rank correlation

Weekly exercise (hours)Rank 1Self-reported mood scoreRank 2dddd2d^2d2
5656
22.533
4545
1111
3433
22.533
Total:
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