Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
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Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
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A hotel management company runs 10 hotels in a resort area. The hotels have a mix of pricing–some hotels have budget–priced rooms, some have moderate–priced rooms and some have deluxe–priced rooms. Data are collected that indicate the number of rooms that are occupied at each hotel on each day of month. Explain how the 10 hotels can be recoded into these three price categories.
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