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A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influ

ID: 3130861 • Letter: A

Question

A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product. To do this, the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices. Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:

City Price ($) Sales

River Falls 1.3 100

Hudson 1.6 90

Ellsworth 1.8 90

Prescott 2 40

Rock Elm 2.4 38

Stillwater 2.9 32

Y = 161.3855 + (-48.1928) (X) In the above case, if the price of the candy bar is set at $2, the estimated average sales will be

A) 30

B) 65

C) 90

D) 100

Explanation / Answer

Solution : B) 65

65 is the estimated average sales if the price of the candy bar is set at $2.