Talon Services offers standardized job counseling services. The company is planning a new service line targeted to active seniors whoare retiring and looking forward to a new career. The service will sell for a flat $971 per client and will consist of a standardizedoffering. The service will consist of a total of 9 hours with a counseling specialist and a battery of tests to assess interests andaptitudes. Counseling specialists, who are contract employees, are paid $34 per hour. The testing is estimated to cost $131 per client.Administrative costs for the new service have not been estimated, but the company has collected Information on counseling hours andadministrative costs for other services over the past 15 months. The following is a summary of a simple regression of administrativecosts on counseling hours:Simple Regression Analysis ResultsDependent variable-Administrative costa (monthly)Independent variable-Counseling hours (monthly)Computed valuesInterceptCoefficient on independent variableCoefficient of correlation$ 76,100$10.400.8900.752Required:a. What percentage of the variation in administrative costs is explained by the independent variable?89.0%75.2%97.6%54.1%Some other amount

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Required: a. What percentage of the variation in administrative costs is explained by the independent variable? 89.0% 75.2% 97.6% 54.1% Some other amount

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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