Travel and Transportation Interstate 95 is a major north/south highway along the eastern part of the United States. Travelers on this road have a wide variety of hotel options at most of the major exits. A random sample of hotels at the intersection of I-95 and Highway 870 in Florida was obtained. The distance (miles) from I-95 and the starting room price (dollars) for each was recorded. The data are given in the following table.
Compute Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and use this value to describe the relationship between these two variables.