Consider the quarterly Home Depot Sales in Exercise 25 again. The regression analysis gives the model a)

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Consider the quarterly Home Depot Sales in Exercise 25 again. The regression analysis gives the model

Sales = -11.5 + 0.0535 Housing Starts.


a) Explain what the slope of the line says.

b) What would you predict for quarterly sales when housing starts are 500,000 units?

c) If quarterly sales are $3 billion higher than predicted given the reported housing starts during a quarter, what is this difference called?

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Business Statistics

ISBN: 9780133899122

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Authors: Norean D. Sharpe, Richard D. De Veaux, Paul F. Velleman, David Wright

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