A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles (in hundreds of miles) the manager's sales representatives travel per month and the amount of sales (in thousands of dollars) per month. Find the equation of the regression line for the given data. miles traveled x 2 3 10 7 8 15 3 1 11 sales y 31 33 78 62 65 61 48 55 120

A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles (in hundreds of miles) the manager's sales representatives travel per month and the amount of sales (in thousands of dollars) per month. Find the equation of the regression line for the given data. miles traveled x 2 3 10 7 8 15 3 1 11 sales y 31 33 78 62 65 61 48 55 120

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter4: Equations Of Linear Functions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 43SGR

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