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Application of OLS

A car buyer is interested in purchasing a second hand car and wants


to analyze the relationship between the car’s age and the advertised
purchase price. He gathers the following information:

X (Age in years) 2 4 6 8 10 12
Y (Advertised 840 620 510 400 325 190
price in
thousand)

1. Draw a scatter diagram to represent the above information and comment


on how this can be interpreted.
2.Find the least square regression equation of the regression line of Y on X.
3. Interpret the slope coefficient and the y intercept obtained.

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