Regression Analysis a Local Grocery Store Wants to Predict

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Essay

Regression Analysis A local grocery store wants to predict its daily sales in dollars.The manager believes that the amount of newspaper advertising significantly affects sales.He randomly selects 7 days of data consisting of daily grocery store sales (in thousands of dollars)and advertising expenditures (in thousands of dollars).The Excel/MegaStat output given above summarizes the results of the regression model.What is the estimated simple linear regression equation?

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Definitions:

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