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Draw a scatter diagram of the clinic’s administrative costs during its first year of operations, visually fit a curvilinear cost line to the plotted data, mark the clinic’s relevant range of activity on the scatter diagram, and visually fit a semi-variable cost line to approximate the curvilinear cost behavior pattern within the clinic relevant range.
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Estimate the fixed cost and variable cost components of the visually fit semi-variable cost line.
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Identify an equation to express the semi-variable cost approximation of the clinic’s administrative costs.
7.
Predict the clinic’s administrative cost during a month when 800 patients and 300 patient visit the clinic, and state the visually fit cost lines use to make each of these predictions.

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