In: Statistics and Probability
The owner of Gino’s Pizza restaurant chain believes that if a restaurant is located near a college campus, then there is a linear relationship between sales and the size of the student population. Suppose data are collected from a sample of n = 10 Gino’s Pizza restaurants located near college campuses with the following reported sample statistics:
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 X= Population (1000s)  | 
 Y = Sales ($1000s)  | 
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 Sample Mean  | 
 14  | 
 130  | 
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 Sample Standard Deviation  | 
 7.944  | 
 41.806  | 
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 Sample Variance  | 
 63.111  | 
 1747.778  | 
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 Sample Covariance  | 
 315.556  | 
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We want to find the equation of the least-squares regression line predicting quarterly pizza sales (y) from student population (x).
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 Source of Variation  | 
 SS  | 
 df  | 
 MS  | 
 F  | 
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 Regression  | 
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 Error  | 
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