TABLE 12-4 The Managers of a Brokerage Firm Are Interested in Finding

question 129

Short Answer

TABLE 12-4
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 Table 12-4, the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the population slope was equal to 0. At a level of significance of 0.01, the null hypothesis should be ________ (rejected or not rejected).

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