
Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780321946393
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Kathryn A. Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 95PS
The file Natural Gas contains the U.S. monthly average commercial and residential price for natural gas in dollars per thousand cubic feet from January 2008 through December 2016.
For the commercial price and the residential price:
a. Construct a time-series plot.
b. What pattern, if any, is present in the data?
c. Construct a
d. What conclusion can you reach about the relationship between the commercial price and the residential price?
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