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A Local Tire Dealer Wants to Predict the Number of Tires

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A local tire dealer wants to predict the number of tires sold each month.He believes that the number of tires sold is a linear function of the amount of money invested in advertising.He randomly selects 6 months of data consisting of tire sales (in thousands of tires)and advertising expenditures (in thousands of dollars).Based on the data set with 6 observations,the simple linear regression model yielded the following results.


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