A fast-food franchise would like to make decisions about their pricing policy. In order to assess...

A fast-food franchise would like to make decisions about their pricing policy. In order to assess the effect of different price structures on sales a sample of 75 observations is collected. The company collects data on monthly sales revenues (in $1,000 units) and price (in $1 units).

SUMMARY OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R	0.625540559
R Square	0.391300991
Adjusted R Square	0.382962648
Standard Error	5.09685747
Observations	75

ANOVA
	df	SS	MS	F	Significance F
Regression	1	1219.091184	1219.091184	46.92791	1.97077E-09
Residual	73	1896.390793	25.97795607
Total	74	3115.481978

	Coefficients	Standard Error	t Stat	P-value	Lower 95%	Upper 95%
Intercept	121.9001755	6.526290622	18.67832473	0.000000	108.8932971	134.907054
PRICE	-7.829074013	1.142864631	-6.850394879	0.000000	-10.10679994	-5.551348089

a). (10) Test the hypothesis that price has a significant relationship with monthly sales revenues. Choose a significance level of 5%. Show all your work.

b). (10) Calculate the p-value for the test from a). Show a sketch of the p-value. Perform the test using the p-value approach.

c). (5) Interpret the slope coefficient.

d). (5) Based on your answer from c), do you think a strategy of price reduction is a good idea ? Motivate your answer.

d). (5) Comment on the goodness of fit of the model. In particular, interpret the coefficient of determination. Do you think that we have a good fit? Explain your answer.

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