Cost of Textbooks the Editor of a Higher Education Book

Essay

Cost of Textbooks The editor of a higher education book publisher claims that a large part of the cost of books is the cost of paper. This implies that larger textbooks will cost more money. As an experiment to analyze the claim, a university student visits the bookstore and records the number of pages and the selling price of twelve randomly selected textbooks. These data are listed below. {Cost of Textbooks Narrative} Draw a scatter diagram of the data. Comment on whether it appears that a linear model might be appropriate.