as often happens in through bo CASE STUDY RECRUITING IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT When qualified applicants are scarce, recruiting becomes extremely competitive, After interviewing three short-listed candidates, a high-tech company, Com. unsuccessful. The successful candidate was given one week to consider the offer. The pany X, made an offer to one and advised the other two candidates that they were candidate asked for a week's extension to consider the offer but was granted only At the end of the time period, the candidate verbally accepted the offer and was sent a contract to sign. Rather than returning the signed contract, the candi date informed Company X that he had accepted a position at Company Y. He had received the second ofter after verbally accepting the first position at Company X. The second company knew that the candidate had verbally accepted Company X's offer. Before accepting Company Y's ofter, the candidate had consulted a respected mentor who advised him to ignore his verbal commitment to Company X and to accept Company Y's otter. There were no substantial differences in the salaries being offered an additional three days. particularly when two companies go after the same candidate, the case of searching for professionals. by each company or in the work that each would expect the candidate to perform. The candidate simply saw Company Y as the more prestigious of the two employers. The following sample observations were randomly selected for a study between x representing absences and y test score out of 20 points the data is summarized below: 5 3 6 3 4 4 6 8 13 15 7 12 13 11 95 Determine the regression equation for the above data? A y-19 1198 17425x By 19.1198 + 17425x Cy# -19.1198 - 17425x D. None of the answers listed E ya 19.1198 - 17425x