Chapter 11, Problem 11.12E

Summary Introduction

To determine:

Analyzing and reporting on divisions sales for the first nine months of the year and calculating mean for each quarter and all averages for the year to date. Based on the data identifying and discussing the quarterly sales trends.

Introduction:

Business research often yields numeric data, but these numbers alone don’t facilitate good business decision making Simple arithmetic helps in extracting meaning from sets of data for e.g. mean, median and mode tells different things about a data.