Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 12, Problem 16P
Use the following information to answer the next two exercises. The price of a single issue of stock can fluctuate throughout the day. A linear equation that represents the price of stock for Shipment Express is 
where x is the number of hours passed in an eight-hour day of trading.
If you owned this stock, would you want a positive or negative slope? Why?
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