SCENARIO 13-2 A Candy Bar Manufacturer Is Interested in Trying to Estimate

question 87

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 13-2
A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product.To do this,the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices.Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable,the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:

-Referring to Scenario 13-2,what is the coefficient of correlation for these data?

• A)- 0.8854
• B)- 0.7839
• C)0.7839
• D)0.8854

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