Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 14

Essay

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
An operations manager was interested in determining if there is a relationship between the amount of training received by production line workers and the time it takes for them to troubleshoot a process problem. A sample of recently trained line workers was selected. The number of hours of training time received and the time it took (in minutes) for them to troubleshoot their last process problem were captured. Relevant data appear in the table below.
Below are the scatterplot, regression results, and residual plots for these data.
-What percentage of the variability in troubleshooting time can be accounted for by amount of training received?

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