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Ronnie Rogers, the customer relations manager for a large computer manufacturer, has recently studied the duration of telephone calls received by the company’s technical support department. The call lengths are exponentially distributed, with a
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- Peter Thompson, in charge of office supplies at Top Hill Estates., would like to predict the quantity of paper used in the office photocopying machines per month. He believes that the number of clients seen in a month influences the volume of photocopying performed. He has compiled the following recent monthly data: (You are to use Excel for this problem) Number of clients in a Month Sheets of Photocopy Paper Used (1000's) 40 26 50 54 40 23 34 52 24 12 25 26 22 15 22 26 a. Develop the least squares estimated regression equation that relates sheets of photocopy paper used to the number of clients. b. Use the regression equation developed in part (a) to forecast the amount of paper used in a month when 36 clients are expected. c. Compute SSE, SST, and SSR.arrow_forwardThe Federal Bureau of Investigation reports state-level and national data on crimes. An investigator compares the incidence of crime in the United States in 1991 and in 2001. In 1991, there were 28,000 crimes compared with 22,000 in 2001. Can you conclude that the US became more law-abiding over that time period?arrow_forwardSergei Ivanovich is one of the diligent students of a high school in the USA. He is also a basketball fan. One day her gym teacher assigned her to report the average points earned by women's basketball players in each game in the form of a written report. Then Sergei took 10 player names and their points in one game. He took data from the WNBA AIl-Times Leaders website, based on this data in this regular season Nykesha Sales got 14.2 points per game, Sophia Young-malcolm got 14.3; Kayla McBride got 14.5; DeWanna Bonner got 14.8; Napheesa Collier got 14.9; Sheryl Swoopes got 15.0; Tina Thompson gets 15.1; Jewell Loyd gets 15.2 points; Kelsey Mitchell gets 15.2 points; and Seimone Augustus got 15.4 points. If it is claimed that the population mean is 14 points in each game, the alternative is greater than the null hypothesis. Perform a unidirectional test of the results of the sample taken by Sergei lvanovich with a significance level of 0.01.arrow_forward
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