Renton Industries Makes Replacement Parts for the Automobile Industry

question 95

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Renton Industries makes replacement parts for the automobile industry.As part of the company's capacity planning,it needs a long-range total demand forecast.The following information was generated based on 10 years of historical data on total number of parts sold each year. Based on this information we can conclude that the linear trend model explains a significant proportion of the variation in the number of parts sold,because the p-value is much smaller than any reasonable α that we might use.

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