Cost of Textbooks the Editor of a Higher Education Book

question 26

Essay

Cost of Textbooks The editor of a higher education book publisher claims that a large part of the cost of books is the cost of paper. This implies that larger textbooks will cost more money. As an experiment to analyze the claim, a university student visits the bookstore and records the number of pages and the selling price of twelve randomly selected textbooks. These data are listed below. {Cost of Textbooks Narrative} Estimate the selling price for a 650 pages book.

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