Statistics for Business & Economics
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Author: David R. Anderson
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 17.4, Problem 23E
The president of a small manufacturing firm is concerned about the continual increase in manufacturing costs over the past several years. The following figures provide a time series of the cost per unit for the firm’s leading product over the past eight years.
| Year | Cost/Unit ($) | Year | Cost/Unit ($) |
| 1 | 20.00 | 5 | 26.60 |
| 2 | 24.50 | 6 | 30.00 |
| 3 | 28.20 | 7 | 31.00 |
| 4 | 27.50 | 8 | 36.00 |
- a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data?
- b. Develop the linear trend equation for this time series.
- c. What is the average cost increase that the firm has been realizing per year?
- d. Compute an estimate of the cost/unit for next year.
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