The Following Scatterplot Shows Productivity and Number Hired Workers with a Fitted

question 93

Multiple Choice

The following scatterplot shows productivity and number hired workers with a fitted quadratic regression model. Assuming that the values of Hires can be nonintegers, what is the maximum value of Productivity predicted by the model?

• A) 29.58
• B) 124.603
• C) 35.086
• D) 127.50

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