SCENARIO 13-4 The Managers of a Brokerage Firm Are Interested in Finding

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SCENARIO 13-4
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new clients a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker.They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new clients they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars.These data are presented in the table that follows.

-Referring to Scenario 13-4,the prediction for the amount of sales (in $1,000s)for a person who brings 25 new clients into the firm is .

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Definitions:

Monopolistic Competition

A market structure characterized by the presence of several firms that sell similar, but slightly differentiated, products and services where each has some control over its prices.

Zero Economic Profits

A situation in perfectly competitive markets where firms earn just enough revenue to cover their total operating costs, leaving no supernormal profit.

Positive Economic Profits

The situation in which a firm's total revenues exceed its total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, signaling that the firm is doing better than the next best alternative.

Profit

The financial gain realized when the amount earned from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs, and taxes needed to sustain the activity.