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As part of Office Depot’s cost reducing strategy, research is being conducted on its line of printers. Currently Office Depot offers 5 types of printers, each having different features. Office Depot detected that when it comes to buying a printer, customers look first for a particular printing speed (pages per minute, or ppm) and only then they look to the price to make their decision. A regression analysis is performed to determine whether printer speed is a driver of (explains) the price. The following table displays the printers, their speeds and associated prices.
printer |
speed |
price |
minolta |
10 |
149 |
HP |
12 |
450 |
Xerox |
18 |
750 |
Brother |
16 |
799 |
IBM |
12 |
250 |
Averages |
13.60 |
479.60 |