Under state law, a manufacturer must design a dangerous product so as to avoid harm to people who are using the product as intended or in an unintended but foreseeable way. bennett, a six-year-old, placed a bic cigarette lighter under his shirt and lit the lighter. his shirt caught on fire, causing him severe burns. his mother sued bic, contending it was liable because the lighter was a dangerous product and bennett's use of the lighter was unintended but foreseeable. the court is most likely to find that bic wasa. not liable, because lighters cannot be designed so that children cannot use them.
b. liable, because it was foreseeable that a child would have access to and try to use a lighter.
c. liable, because all lighters are dangerous.
d. not liable, because children should never have access to lighters.

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct