Sales and Experience the General Manager of a Chain of Hardware

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Essay

Sales and Experience The general manager of a chain of hardware stores believes that experience is the most important factor in determining the level of success of a salesperson. To examine this belief she records last month's sales (in $1,000s)and the years of experience of 10 randomly selected salespeople. These data are listed below. {Sales and Experience Narrative} Determine the standard error of estimate and describe what this statistic tells you about the regression line.

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