Question: The Sleepy Hollow Bed and Breakfast is an inn that is trying to determine what price it needs to charge for its rooms in order

The Sleepy Hollow Bed and Breakfast is an inn that is trying to determine what price it needs to charge for its rooms in order to break even this month because it is the summer the inn expects to rent rooms to 50 customers who will stay an average of two nights each over the course of the month. One meal is provided to each person that stays one night.

The Inn has the following operating costs:

Front Desk Salaries$ 2,000per month
Maintenance$ 2,575per month
Cleaning Staff$ 8per room
Depreciation$ 1,500per month
Food Costs$ 5

per meal

The inn also has to pay for utilities, but they suspect that utilities are a mixed cost. Some past data on the cost of providing utilities is shown here:

MonthPerson-Nights bookedCost
Jul125$ 730.94
Aug110$ 598.95
Sep90$ 634.10
Oct88$ 554.82
Nov34$ 296.86
Dec25$ 233.97
Jan10$ 166.09
Feb39$ 339.30
Mar78$ 534.16
Apr65$ 489.02
May81$ 502.91
Jun105$ 608.50

Given the inn anticipates:

Customers50
Nights per customer2
Person-Nights100

Part A) Use regression analysis to separate the fixed and variable part of this mixed cost. You can use excel to do this, but I highly recommend using another program such as R.

InterceptSlope  
EstimateEstimate
Standard errorStandard Error
t statistict statistic
Fixed Cost Estimate
Variable Cost Estimate  

Part B) What is the lowest price that Sleepy Hollow can charge for its rooms on average this month and still break even? Use cell references whenever possible.

Fixed Costs:

Variable Costs:

Total Fixed Costs:

Total Variable Costs:

Breakeven Price per room night:

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