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Cost of Books
the Editor of a Major

question 56

Essay

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Cost of Books
The editor of a major academic book publisher claims that a large part of the cost of books is the cost of paper. This implies that larger books 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 books. These data are listed below. $$\begin{array} { | c | c | c | } \hline \text { Book } & \text { Number af Peges } & \text { Selling Price (\$) } \\\hline 1 & 844 & 55 \\2 & 727 & 50 \\3 & 360 & 35 \\4 & 915 & 60 \\5 & 295 & 30 \\6 & 706 & 50 \\7 & 410 & 40 \\8 & 905 & 53 \\9 & 1058 & 65 \\10 & 865 & 54 \\11 & 677 & 42 \\12 & 912 & 58 \\\hline\end{array}$$ NARREND
-{Cost of Books Narrative} Which interval in the previous two questions is narrower: the confidence interval estimate of the expected value of y or the prediction interval for the same given value of x (10 years) and same confidence level? Why?

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