SCENARIO 16-6 The President of a Chain of Department Stores Believes That

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SCENARIO 16-6
The president of a chain of department stores believes that her stores' total sales have been showing a linear trend since 1993.She uses Microsoft Excel to obtain the partial output below.The dependent variable is sales (in millions of dollars),while the independent variable is coded years,where 1993 is coded as 0,1994 is coded as 1,etc.

-Referring to Scenario 16-6,the fitted trend value (in millions of dollars)for 1998 is .

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Definitions:

Income Elasticity

A measure of how much the demand for a good or service changes in response to a change in consumers' income, indicating its necessity or luxury status.

Education Demanded

The quantity and type of education that individuals or society seek, often influenced by the job market and societal values.

Cross-price Elasticity

Measures the responsiveness of the demand for one good to a change in the price of another good.

Good Y

Typically, a variable used in economic models to represent a generic good or service in the market.