Alan Ho, a Market Analyst for Clear Sound Inc

question 39

Multiple Choice

Alan Ho, a market analyst for Clear Sound Inc., is analyzing sales of heavy metal CD's.Alan's dependent variable is annual heavy metal CD sales (in $1,000,000's) , and his independent variables are teenage population (in 1,000's) and type of sales district (0 = urban, 1 = rural) .Regression analysis of the data yielded the following tables: For a rural sales district with 10,000 teenagers, Alan's model predicts annual sales of heavy metal CD sales of ___.

• A)$2,100,000
• B)$524,507
• C)$533,333
• D)$729,683
• E)$210,000

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