College Textbook Sales Narrative

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College Textbook Sales Narrative
A publisher of college textbooks conducted a study to relate profit per text y to cost of sales x over a six-year period when its sales force (and sales costs) were growing rapidly. These inflation-adjusted data (in thousands of dollars) were collected: Expecting profit per book to rise and then plateau, the publisher fitted the model to the data.
-Refer to College Textbook Sales Narrative. Use the values of SSR and Total SS in the printout to calculate Compare this value with the value given in the printout.

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