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

question 47

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 slope to determine at the 5% significance level whether a positive linear relationship exists between years of experience and sales.

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