HP 17bII Owner's Manual page 135

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
BJ's wants to determine whether there is a linear relationship between
the amount of radio advertising and the weekly sales. If a strong
relationship exists, BJ's wants to use the relationship to forecast sales. A
graph of the data looks like this:
SALES in Dollars
File name : English-M02-1-040308(Print).doc
Number of Minutes
of Radio
Advertising
(x-values,
MINUTES
)
2
1
3
5
5
4
y
3,000
2,000
1,000
B
0 1 2 3
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Print data : 2004/3/9
Dollar Sales
(y-values,
SALES
)
$1,400
$ 920
$1,100
$2,265
$2,890
$2,200
(forecasted)
x
4 5 6 7
of Advertising