To understand success at merger and integration, Vortex-SUX, a big company runs a regression to develop a paramorphic representation. They analyze all 300 acquisitions in the industry as follows: Merger success: 1=unsuccessful, 10=successful Increase in sales: 1=no increase, 10=10% increase Ease of integration: 1=not easy, 10=very easy Employee engagement at acquired company: 1=fully disengaged, 10= fully engaged Merger size (size of acquired company): 1=10 million, 10=100 million To make everything comparable, all variables are on a 1-10 scale. The following representation is obtained: Merger Success = 4.0 + .25(Increase in sales) + .85(Ease of integration) Likelihood + .35(Merger size) 10(Employee engagement) (All predictors significant at p<.01 r2="72.13%)" three deals of equal size and sales potential are on the market to be acquired. which them represents highest chance a successful acquisition o company y: ease integration rating employee engagement insufficient data draw any conclusions z: x:>