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Practice Sheet 3
Practice Sheet 3
Mean x -0.12%
Mean y -0.10%
Min - Monthy Salary Count - Monthy Salary Count - Monthy Salary Count - Monthy Salary
2700 28 28 28
2950 21 21 21
2830 16 16 16
2240 24 24 24
2495 22 22 22
2240 111 111 111
Franchise # U.S. Locations
Hampton Inns 1,864
ampm 3,183
McDonald's 32,805
7-Eleven, Inc. 37,496
Supercuts 2,130
Days Inn 1,877
Vanguard Cleaning Systems 2,155
Servpro 1,572
Subway 34,871
Denny's Inc. 1,668
Jan-Pro Franchising Intl Inc. 12,394
Hardee's 1,901 # U.S. Locations
Pizza Hut Inc. 13,281 0-9999
Kumon Math & Reading Centers 25,199 13
Dunkin' Donuts 9,947
KFC Corp. 16,224
Jazzercise Inc. 7,683
Anytime Fitness 1,618
Matco Tools 1,431
Stratus Building Solutions 5,018
5. entrepreneur magazine ranks franchises. Among the f
rankings are growth rate, number of locations, start-up c
recent ranking listed the top 20 U.S. franchises and the n
These data can be found in the file Franchises. Create a
data using classes 0–9,999, 10,000–19,999, 20,000–29,9
following questions. (Hint: Use Number of U.S. Locations
Count of Number of U.S. Locations as the VALUES in the
a. How many franchises have between 0 and 9,999 locati
b. How many franchises have more than 30,000 location
Type (rows)
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Revenue ($)
Company Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Blue Sky Media 8995 9285 11555 9530 11230 13600
Innovate Technologies 18250 16870 19580 17260 18290 16250
Timmler Company 8480 7650 7023 6540 5700 4930
Accelerate, Inc. 28325 27580 23450 22500 20800 19800
Allen and Davis, LLC 4580 6420 6780 7520 8370 10100
Smith Ventures 17500 16850 20185 18950 17520 18580
20. The following table shows monthly revenue for six different web development companies.
a. Use Excel to create sparklines for sales at each company.
b. Which companies have generally decreasing revenues over the six months? Which
company has exhibited the most consistent growth over the six months? Which companies
have revenues that are both increasing and decreasing over the six months?
c. Use Excel to create a heat map for the revenue of the six companies. Do you find the
heat map or the sparklines to be better at communicating the trend of revenues over
the six months for each company? Why?