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The marketing manager of a large supermarket chain would like to use shelf space

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Question

The marketing manager of a large supermarket chain would like to use shelf space to predict the sales of pet food. For a random sample of 12 similar stores, she gathered the following information regarding the shelf space, in feet, devoted to pet food and the weekly sales in hundreds of dollars. .

Store

1

2

3

4

5

6

Shelf Space

5

5

5

10

10

10

Weekly Sales

1.6

2.2

1.4

1.9

2.4

2.6

Store

7

8

9

10

11

12

Shelf Space

15

15

15

20

20

20

Weekly Sales

2.3

2.7

2.8

2.6

2.9

3.1

Is the correlation between weekly sales and shelf space significant at the .01 level of significance?

Store

1

2

3

4

5

6

Shelf Space

5

5

5

10

10

10

Weekly Sales

1.6

2.2

1.4

1.9

2.4

2.6

Explanation / Answer

B