
1.
To identify: The manufacturing
2.
To prepare: The graph of the hospital’s overhead costs against nursing hours.
3.
To prepare: The graph of the hospital’s overhead costs against the number of patient days.
4.
To explain: Whether the given data appear to be sound or contain potential data problems.
5.
The hospital overhead cost equation using nursing hours as the cost driver.
To find: The hospital overhead cost if 24,500 nursing hours are predicted.
6.
To find: The hospital overhead cost if 24,500 nursing hours are predicted using regression analysis.
7.
To find: The hospital overhead cost if 3,640 patient days are predicted using regression analysis.
8.
To explain: The regression analysis which (using nursing hours or using the number of patient days as the cost driver) produces the best cost equation.

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