Arnold Tofu Owns and Operates a Chain of 12 Vegetable

question 95

Essay

Arnold Tofu owns and operates a chain of 12 vegetable protein "hamburger" restaurants in northern Louisiana.Sales figures and profits for the stores are provided in the table below.Sales are given in millions of dollars;profits are in hundreds of thousands of dollars.Calculate a regression line for the data.What is your forecast of profit for a store with sales of $24 million? $30 million?

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Definitions:

Negative Externalities

Unintended adverse effects of an economic activity on unrelated third parties; they represent a failure of the market to fully account for the impacts of transactions.

Social Planner

A hypothetical figure in economic theories who makes decisions designed to allocate resources efficiently and achieve social welfare objectives.

Private Cost

The expenses that a company or an individual incurs as a result of its economic activity, excluding any external costs.

Private Value

The value of a good or service to a particular buyer or group of buyers, which may differ from its market price or the value to other buyers.