An Account Executive Receives a Base Salary Plus a Commission

question 39

Multiple Choice

An account executive receives a base salary plus a commission. With $17,000 in monthly sales, the account executive receives $1700. On $45,000 in monthly sales, the account executive receives $2700.
A. Determine a linear function that will yield the compensation of the sales executive for a given amount of monthly sales. Round any numbers in your function to the nearest hundredth.
B. Use this model, with coefficients rounded to the nearest hundreth, to determine the account executive's compensation for $36,700 in monthly sales. Round to the nearest dollar.

• A) (a) ; (b) $1468
• B) (a) ; (b) $1093
• C) (a) ; (b) $4763
• D) (a) ; (b) $2561
• E) (a) ; (b) $1468

Recognize the relationship between the F-distribution and the chi-squared distribution.

Understand the properties and applications of the chi-squared distribution.

Perform hypothesis tests regarding population variances and interpret the results.

Estimate the variance ratio between two populations and interpret confidence intervals for this ratio.

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