SCENARIO 18-12 The Marketing Manager for a Nationally Franchised Lawn Service Company

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SCENARIO 18-12
The marketing manager for a nationally franchised lawn service company would like to study the characteristics that differentiate home owners who do and do not have a lawn service. A random sample of 30 home owners located in a suburban area near a large city was selected; 15 did not have a lawn service (code 0) and 15 had a lawn service (code 1). Additional information available concerning these 30 home owners includes family income (Income, in thousands of dollars), lawn size (Lawn Size, in thousands of square feet), attitude toward outdoor recreational activities (Attitude 0 = unfavorable, 1 = favorable), number of teenagers in the household (Teenager), and age of the head of the household (Age). The Minitab output is given below:

-Referring to Scenario 18-11,what is the estimated probability that a school with a mean SAT score of 1250,a TOEFL criterion that is at least 550,and the room and board expense of 5 thousand dollars will be a private school?

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The rate at which work is done or energy is transferred in a unit of time.

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The ratio of air drawn into a cylinder compared to the maximum air that could enter the cylinder. Most gas engines are about 80 to 90 percent volumetrically efficient.