Instruction 14-13
the Manager of a Marketing Consulting Firm Has

question 3

Short Answer

Instruction 14-13
The manager of a marketing consulting firm has been examining his company's yearly profits.He believes that these profits have been showing a quadratic trend since 1990.He uses Microsoft Excel to obtain the partial output below.The dependent variable is profit (in thousands of dollars),while the independent variables are coded years and squared of coded years,where 1990 is coded as 0,1991 is coded as 1,etc.
SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics
$\begin{array} { l r } \text { Multiple R } & 0.998 \\ \text { R Square } & 0.996 \\ \text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.996 \\ \text { Standard Error } & 4.996 \\ \text { Observations } & 17 \end{array}$
$\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad$ Coefficients
Intercept $\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad 35.5$
Coded Year $\quad\quad\quad\quad 0.45$
$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Year Squared } & 1.00 \end{array}$
-Referring to Instruction 14-13,the fitted value for 1990 is ________.

Understand the relationship between demand and supply in determining equilibrium price and quantity.

Distinguish between normal and inferior goods in response to income changes.

Recognize the effect of substitutes on market demand.

Interpret shifts and movements along demand and supply curves.

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