In: Statistics and Probability
A restaurant manger, Coleman, at the Four Seasons Hotel wants to predict/forecast a number of meals to be prepared for the breakfast since the labor costs and cost of good sold are vey high and does not want to create high volume of waste and manage the inventory in a proper way.
He looks through the previous data (2016) to determine the relationship between the number of guest stayed at the hotel and number of meals served from the following data:
Number of guest stayed at the hotel (Guest) Number of meals (breakfast) served (Meals)
Guest Meals
23 69
29 95
29 102
35 118
42 126
46 125
50 138
54 178
64 156
66 184
76 176
78 225
Y = (describe which one is used for Y):
X = (describe/identify which one is used for X):
A = (A refers to ?) and provide a number
B = (B refers to ?) and provide a number