A researcher is transforming finishing times from a 5K race into ordinal data and has the following scores in minutes: 17.6, 25.3, 18.4, 28.2, 32.6, 31.5, and 25.3.If the researcher ranks from fastest to slowest, what would be the rank of the two people with a finish time of 25.3?
A) 4.5
B) 4
C) 3.5
D) 3

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When two or more scores are identical, their rank is the average of what their ranks would have been if they were slightly different. The two times of 25.3 are the 4th and 5th fastest times, so their average rank is (4+5)/2 = 4.5.

A Researcher Is Transforming Finishing Times from a 5K Race