Cost of Textbooks the Editor of a Higher Education Book Publisher Claims

question 201

Essay

Cost of Textbooks
The editor of a higher education book publisher claims that a large part of the cost of books is the cost of paper.This implies that larger textbooks will cost more money.As an experiment to analyze the claim,a university student visits the bookstore and records the number of pages and the selling price of twelve randomly selected textbooks.These data are listed below. ​ ​
-{Cost of Textbooks Narrative} Interpret the value of the slope of the regression line.

---

Definitions:

Popular Sovereignty

The concept that a state and its government's power is established and maintained by the approval of its citizens, via their chosen representatives.

Slavery Abolition

The movement towards and the process of formally ending the legal practice of slavery and human enslavement in various parts of the world.

Tariff of Abominations

The nickname given to the Tariff of 1828 in the United States, which imposed high duties on imports and sparked significant controversy, especially in the South.

Nullification Crisis

A political confrontation in the early 1830s between the state of South Carolina and the Federal government over the latter's right to impose tariffs.