Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)
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Chapter 17.4, Problem 23E
The president of a small manufacturing firm is concerned about the continual increase in manufacturing costs over the past several years. The following figures provide a time series of the cost per unit for the firm’s leading product over the past eight years.
- a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data?
- b. Develop the linear trend equation for this time series.
- c. What is the average cost increase that the firm has been realizing per year?
- d. Compute an estimate of the cost/unit for next year.
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Chapter 17 Solutions
Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)
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