Instruction 12.34
The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results:
$$\begin{array} { | l | c | }
\hline \text { Customers } & \text { Sales (Thousands of Dollars) } \
\hline 907 & 11.20 \
\hline 926 & 11.05 \
\hline 713 & 8.21 \
\hline 741 & 9.21 \
\hline 780 & 9.42 \
\hline 898 & 10.08 \
\hline 510 & 6.73 \
\hline 529 & 7.02 \
\hline 460 & 6.12 \
\hline 872 & 9.52 \
\hline 650 & 7.53 \
\hline 603 & 7.25 \
\hline
\end{array}$$
-Referring to Instruction 12.34,the null hypothesis for testing whether the number of customers who make purchase effects weekly sales cannot be rejected if 1% probability of committing a Type I error is desired.

Question

Instruction 12.34
The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results:
 $$\begin{array} { | l | c | } 
\hline \text { Customers } & \text { Sales (Thousands of Dollars) } \
\hline 907 & 11.20 \
\hline 926 & 11.05 \
\hline 713 & 8.21 \
\hline 741 & 9.21 \
\hline 780 & 9.42 \
\hline 898 & 10.08 \
\hline 510 & 6.73 \
\hline 529 & 7.02 \
\hline 460 & 6.12 \
\hline 872 & 9.52 \
\hline 650 & 7.53 \
\hline 603 & 7.25 \
\hline
\end{array}$$
-Referring to Instruction 12.34,the null hypothesis for testing whether the number of customers who make purchase effects weekly sales cannot be rejected if 1% probability of committing a Type I error is desired.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The statement cannot be definitively evaluated as true or false without conducting a statistical test (e.g., linear regression analysis) to determine the p-value associated with the relationship between the number of customers and weekly sales. The decision to reject or not reject the null hypothesis depends on the p-value obtained from the analysis compared to the desired significance level (in this case, 1% or 0.01).

Instruction 12 -Referring to Instruction 12