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Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter2: Introduction To Spreadsheet Modeling

Section: Chapter Questions

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Dave F letcher, the general manager of North
Carolina Engineering Corporation (NCEC), thinks that his firm's
engineering services contracted to highway construction firms are
directly rela ted to the volume of highway construction business
contracted with companies in his geographic area. He wonders
if thjs is really so, and if it is, can this information help him plan
hjs operations better by forecasting the quantity of his engineering
services required by construction firms in each quarter of the
year? The following table presents the sales of his services and
total amounts of contracts for hjghway construction over the past
eight quarters: a) Using trus data, develop a regression equation for predicting
the level of demand ofNCEC's services.
b) Determjne the coefficient of correlation and the standard error
of the estimate.