Question: Can you help me with the below please, QUESTION #3 Jody Graham is the sales manager for a small company that manufactures and sells widgets.

Can you help me with the below please,

QUESTION #3

Jody Graham is the sales manager for a small company that manufactures and sells widgets. She is conducting a study on sales versus money spent on advertising and has gathered the following data.

SALES ($) ADVERTISING DOLLARS
1000 90
1300 120
1800 150
1200 100
1380 130

USE EQUATIONS and MANUAL CALCULATIONS to answer the following question.

a) Develop theleast squares estimated regression equation of the study

b) Is the model a good predictor? Explain

c)What is the value of the Product Moment Co-efficient of Correlation? What is the relationship between the variables?

d) Jody Graham has promised the President that if he approves an advertising spend (budget) of $1500, sales can be expected to be in excess of $19,000. Based soley on the regression analysis will this be achieved.

e) The unstated motto of Jody Graham has always been "Under promise and Over achieve" Has she put her motto into practise in f) above

f) Industry intelligence has established that in this market on average for every dollar spent on advertising, sale can be expected to increase by $9. Based soley on this regression analysis, is Jody Graham underperforming or over performing. Explain

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