A Manager Wishes to Determine the Relationship Between the Number

question 63

Essay

A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles (in hundreds of miles)the
managerʹs sales representatives travel per month and the amount of sales (in thousands of dollars)per month.
Construct a scatter plot for the data. $$\begin{array} { l | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | } \text { Miles traveled, x } & 2 & 3 & 10 & 7 & 8 & 15 & 3 & 1 & 11 \\\hline \text { Sales, y } & 31 & 33 & 78 & 62 & 65 & 61 & 48 & 55 & 120\end{array}$$

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Definitions:

Relays

Electrically operated switches used to control circuits.

Fretting

Wear at the contact surfaces of two materials that occurs from repeated cyclical motion or vibration, often seen in electrical connections.

Thermal Cycling

A pattern of heating and cooling that, over time, can cause resistance to build up in electrical connections.

Amps

A unit of electric current, short for amperes, indicating the amount of electrical charge passing a point per second.