The chief financial officer (CFO) for the producer of a well-known fashion line has recently come under fire for suggesting that retailers should hire younger people as frontline employees to improve sales. A human resource (HR) managerworking for a retailer that stocks this fashion line collates data gathered by an independent survey company for a sample of employees on a number of variables. These include the weekly sales the employee achieves, their age, years employed by the company and an average rating of friendliness on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 = most fr

Use the information to write a response to the CFO stating whether the analysis supports their assertion. You may like to comment on associations between other variables that appear in this output, such as whether people who have worked with the retailer for a longer period are friendlier or generate better sales.

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Years Employed Sales Friendliness Age 2 Sales Friendliness 0.8656501 4 Age 5 Years Employed -0.0241143 0.041261521 0.4414954 -0.007922502 0.657305507