Sales and Experience The General Manager of a Chain of Department Stores Believes

question 186

Essay

Sales and Experience
The general manager of a chain of department 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} Conduct a test of the population coefficient of correlation to determine at the 5% significance level whether more experience is related to higher sales,as the manager speculates.

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Multitasking

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