SCENARIO 15-7-A
You Are the CEO of a Dairy Company $\left( X _ { 1 } \right)$

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SCENARIO 15-7-A
You are the CEO of a dairy company. You are planning to expand milk production by purchasing
additional cows, lands and hiring more workers. From the existing 50 farms owned by the company,
you have collected data on total milk production (in liters), the number of milking cows, land size (in
acres) and the number of laborers. The data are shown below and also available in the Excel file
Scenario15-7-DataA.XLSX. You believe that the number of milking cows $\left( X _ { 1 } \right)$ , land size $\left( X _ { 2 } \right)$ and the number of laborers $\left( X _ { 3 } \right)$ are the best predictors for total milk production on any given farm.
-Referring to Scenario 15-7-A, the value of the variance inflationary factor of land size is _____.

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Definitions:

Property Plant Equipment

Long-term tangible assets held for business use and not expected to be converted into cash in the current or upcoming fiscal year, including land, buildings, machinery, and vehicles.

Free Cash Flow

The amount of cash generated by a business after accounting for capital expenditures needed to maintain or expand the asset base.

Common Stock

A type of security that represents ownership in a corporation, entitling the shareholder to a proportion of the corporation's assets and profits.

Depreciation

The systematic allocation of the cost of an asset over its useful life.