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

question 112

Multiple Choice

The following scatterplot shows productivity and number hired workers with a fitted quadratic regression model. For which value of Hires is the predicted Productivity maximized? Note: Do not round to the nearest integer.

• A) 29.58
• B) 124.60
• C) 35.086
• D) 27.34

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