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

question 116

Multiple Choice

The following scatterplot shows productivity and number hired workers with a fitted quadratic regression model. Assuming that the number of hired workers must be an integer, what is the maximum productivity predicted by the model?

• A) 29.58
• B) 30.00
• C) 124.603
• D) 124.585

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