Question 1 Report
(a) Five female and seven male teachers applied for 4 vacancies in a Junior High School. The teachers are equally qualified. Find the number of ways of employing the 4 teachers, if : (i) there is no restriction ; (ii) at least 2 of them are females.
(b) The table shows the positions awarded to 7 contestants by Judges X and Y in a competition.
Contestant | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V |
Judge X | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Judge Y | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
(i) Calculate, correct to one decimal place, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
(ii) Interpret your answer in b(i) above.