Q4. Suppose you are considering to open an ice-cream parlour at a location where average
number of tourists are 1000 per day. To help you decide whether to open the ice-cream parlour
or not, you collect data on daily sales (in thousands of rupees) and average number of tourists (in
hundreds of per day) for a random sample of 22 restaurants. You set up model as:
Sales; = B1 + B2 Avgtourist; + u;
ΣΧΥ; = 17170,
ΣΧ;² = 13055,
ΣΥ/n = 32,
ΣΧ/n = 22.5
Obtain the ordinary least square estimator of the slope coefficient and interpret it. Estimate the
average sales for your potential parlour location. Will the value of coefficient of determination
change if you want to change the unit of measurement of sales from thousands of rupees to
rupees, leaving number of tourists unchanged? Explain your answer.