A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price o


Question: A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product. To do this, the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices. Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:

City Price ($) Sales
River Falls 1.30 100
Hudson 1.60 90
Ellisworth 1.80 90
Prescott 2.00 40
Rock Elm 2.40 38
Stillwater 2.90 32

Using the table above solve for the following questions:

What is the estimated average change in the sales of the candy bar if price goes up $1.00? What percent of the total variation in candy bar sales is explained by prices?

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Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 2 pages
Solution Format: Word Document

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