Determine the equation of the regression line to predict annual sales of a company from the yearly stock market volume of shares sold in a recent year. Compute the standard error of the estimate for this model. Does volume of shares sold appear to be a good predictor of a company€™s sales? Why or whynot?

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Company Merck Altria IBM Eastman Kodak Bristol-Myers Squibb General Motors Ford Motors Annual Sales ($ billions) 10.5 48.1 64.8 20.1 11.4 123.8 89.0 Annual Volume (millions of shares) 728.6 497.9 439.1 377.9 375.5 363.8 276.3