In: Statistics and Probability
The following data represent a company's yearly sales volume and its advertising expenditure over a period of 8 years.
| 
 (Y) Sales in Millions of Dollars  | 
 (X) Advertising in ($10,000)  | 
| 
 14  | 
 32  | 
| 
 15  | 
 33  | 
| 
 18  | 
 35  | 
| 
 17  | 
 34  | 
| 
 16  | 
 36  | 
| 
 a.  | 
 Develop a scatter diagram of sales versus advertising and explain what it shows regarding the relationship between sales and advertising.  | 
| 
 b.  | 
 Use the method of least squares to compute an estimated regression line between sales and advertising.  | 
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 c.  | 
 If the company's advertising expenditure is $400,000, what are the predicted sales? Give the answer in dollars.  | 
Answer---->> I hope this answers helps you.
a) Scatter Plot :-
Conclusion:
from  scatter plot we can easily say that there is
positive correlation between sales and advertising


