Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 55PS

The file NewHomeSales contains the number of new homes sold (in thousands) and the median sales price of new single-family houses sold in the United States recorded at the end of each month from January 2000 through December 2016.

a. Construct a times series plot of new home sales prices.

b. What pattern, if any, is present in the data?

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