10.85 Hotel sizes and numbers of employees.
A human resources study of hotels collected data on the size, measured by number of rooms, and the number of employees for 14 hotels in Canada.22 Here are the data.
hotsize
Employees | Rooms | Employees | Rooms |
---|---|---|---|
1200 | 1388 | 275 | 424 |
180 | 348 | 105 | 240 |
350 | 294 | 435 | 601 |
250 | 413 | 585 | 1590 |
415 | 346 | 560 | 380 |
139 | 353 | 166 | 297 |
121 | 191 | 228 | 108 |
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10.85
(a) The relationship is linear, positive, and strong. (b) Yes, a bigger hotel requires more employees to take care of both the rooms and the guests, so we would expect a positive slope. (c) . (d) . There is a significant linear relationship between the number of employees and the number of rooms for hotels. (e) (0.25259, 0.77459).