The table below shows the amount of money spent on skin diving and scuba equipment in some recent years. Skin Diving and Scuba Equipment

Year
Sales ($millions)
1993
315
1994
322
1995
328
1996
340
1998
345
1999
363

Let x represent the year and y represent the amount of sales, in millions of dollars, in the regression equation.
y = 7.36 x minus 14,354.33,
Use the regression equation to predict the sales of skin diving and scuba equipment in the year 2008.
a.
44,000,000
b.
440,000,000
c.
42,455,000
d.
424,550,000

(co 3) the soup produced by a company has a salt level that is normally distributed with a mean of 5.4 grams and a standard deviation of 0.3 grams. the company takes readings of every 10th bar off the production line. the reading points are 5.8, 5.9, 4.9, 6.5, 5.0, 4.9, 6.2, 5.1, 5.7, 6.1. is the process in control or out of control and why? it is out of control as two of these data points are more than 2 standard deviations from the mean it is in control as the data points more than 2 standard deviations from the mean are far apart it is out of control as one of these data points is more than 3 standard deviations from the mean it is in control as the values jump above and below the mean