A Manager Wishes to Determine Whether There Is a Relationship

question 70

Multiple Choice

A manager wishes to determine whether there is a relationship between the number of years her salesrepresentatives have been with the company and their average monthly sales. The table shows the years ofservice for each of her sales representatives and their average monthly sales (in thousands of dollars) . $\begin{array}{l|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c}\text { Years with company, } x & 6 & 7 & 14 & 11 & 12 & 19 & 7 & 5 & 15 \\\hline \text { Sales, y } & 36 & 38 & 83 & 67 & 70 & 66 & 53 & 60 & 125\end{array}$

• A) \(\mathrm { r } = 0.632\); no linear relation exists
• B) \(\mathrm { r } = 0.632\); linear relation exists
• C) \(\mathrm { r } = 0.717\); linear relation exists
• D) \(\mathrm { r } = 0.717\); no linear relation exists

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Definitions:

Partial Conditioner

An agent or factor that has a conditional effect, contributing to an outcome only in certain contexts or situations.

Unconditioned Responses

Automatic, natural reactions to stimuli that occur without prior learning or conditioning, such as reflex actions.

Conditioned Responses

Learned responses to a particular stimulus, conditioned through association during the learning process.

Conditioned Stimuli

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.