SCENARIO 13-2
a Candy Bar Manufacturer Is Interested in Trying $\Sigma$

question 57

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 13-2
A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product.To do this,the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices.Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable,the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:

-Referring to Scenario 13-2,what is $\Sigma$ ( X - $\bar{X}$ ) ² 1for these data?

• A)0
• B)1.66
• C)2.54
• D)25.66

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