The chairman of the marketing department at a large state university undertakes

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The chairman of the marketing department at a large state university undertakes a study to relate starting salary (y) after graduation for marketing majors to grade point average (GPA) in major courses. To do this, records of seven recent marketing graduates are randomly selected, and the data shown below on the left are obtained. The MINITAB output obtained by fitting a least squares regression line to the data is below on the right.

   

Find b1 and b0. Interpret the meanings of b0 and b1. Does the interpretation of b0 make practical sense? (Round your answers to 3 decimal places. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.)

Use the least squares line to compute a point estimate of the mean starting salary for all marketing graduates having a grade point average of 3.25 and a point prediction of the starting salary for an individual marketing graduate having a grade point average of 3.25. (Round your answer to 5 decimal places.)

  Marketing
  Graduate GPA, x Starting Salary,
y (Thousands
of Dollars)   1 3.25 33.8   2 2.64 29.4   3 3.38 33.6   4 2.84 30.1   5 3.83 36.1   6 2.25 27.4   7 3.49 35.2

Explanation / Answer

a) Slope, b1=5.91

Intercept, b0=13.93

For 0 GPA, the starting salary is $13.93.

For each unit increase in GPA, the statrting slary increasses by $13.93.

The interpretation of slope does not make practical sense.

c) yhat=13.93+5.95X

Substitute X with 3.25.

Yhat=13.93+5.95*3.25

=$33.2675.

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