Instruction 12 -Referring to Instruction 12

question 48

Short Answer

Instruction 12.13
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars. These data are presented in the table that follows.
$$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | } \hline \text { Broker } & \text { Clients } & \text { Sales } \\\hline 1 & 27 & 52 \\\hline 2 & 11 & 37 \\\hline 3 & 42 & 64 \\\hline 4 & 33 & 55 \\\hline 5 & 15 & 29 \\\hline 6 & 15 & 34 \\\hline 7 & 25 & 58 \\\hline 8 & 36 & 59 \\\hline 9 & 28 & 44 \\\hline 10 & 30 & 48 \\\hline 11 & 17 & 31 \\\hline 12 & 22 & 38 \\\hline\end{array}$$
-Referring to Instruction 12.13,the standard error of estimate is ____________.

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Definitions:

Hydrogen Sulfide Molecule

A chemical compound with the formula H2S, characterized by a foul odor of rotten eggs; it is a poisonous, corrosive, and flammable gas.

Electronegativity Difference

The measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons towards itself, used to predict the nature of chemical bonds.

Polar Covalent

A type of chemical bond where two atoms share a pair of electrons but they do so unequally, leading to a partial positive charge on one atom and a partial negative charge on the other.

Nonpolar Molecules

Molecules that do not have distinct electrical poles, resulting in a uniform distribution of electrical charge and often being hydrophobic or insoluble in water.