A small computer chip manufacturer wants to forecast monthly operating costs as a function of the number

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A small computer chip manufacturer wants to forecast monthly operating costs as a function of the number of units produced during a month. The company has collected the 16 months of data in the file P10_42.xlsx.
a. Determine an equation that can be used to predict monthly production costs from units produced. Are there any outliers?
b. How could the regression line obtained in part a be used to determine whether the company was efficient or inefficient during any particular month?

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Data Analysis and Decision Making

ISBN: 978-0538476126

4th edition

Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe

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