Lori C. answered 02/08/18
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Hi Mara!
When you write your explanation sentence, you should not use words like StartAbsoluteValue. Be sure you write the sentence using ordinary words that a non-statistician would understand.
You will need to know whether your are doing a two-tailed test or a one-tailed test. You decide that by looking at the alternative hypothesis.
You will need to determine your degrees of freedom. That comes from the number of data values.
Using those numbers along with your alpha value, you can identify the critical value. You will probably use a chart to do that. Remember that the correlation coefficient is represented with the symbol r.
I hope this helped a bit!