Table 8.3 A Textbook Publisher for Books Used in Business Schools Believes

question 141

Multiple Choice

Table 8.3
A textbook publisher for books used in business schools believes that the number of books sold is related to the number of campus visits to decision makers made by their sales force. A sampling of the number of sales calls made and the number of books sold is shown in the following table.


-Use the information provided in Table 8.3. If a sales representative makes 55 sales calls, the number of book sales the publisher should expect is:

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