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Davis Stores sells clothing in 15 stores located around thesouthwestern United States. The managers at Davis are consideringexpanding by opening new stores and are interested in estimatingcosts in potential new locations. They believe that costs aredriven in large part by store volume measured by revenue. During adiscussion, one of the managers suggests that number of employeesmight be better at explaining cost than store revenues. As a resultof that suggestion, managers collected the following informationfrom last year’s operations (revenues and costs in thousands ofdollars):

Store	Costs	Employees	Revenues
101	$2,323	40	$5,881
102	1,926	25	4,424
103	2,941	28	6,983
104	2,728	37	6,937
105	2,497	49	5,322
106	5,206	50	3,339
107	2,924	44	4,807
108	3,168	40	2,829
109	2,775	28	4,709
110	5,917	57	4,640
111	2,452	32	3,806
112	3,128	28	5,005
113	3,282	37	3,298
114	4,880	42	4,910
115	5,157	54	4,889

d-1. Enter the regression coefficients.

d-2. Estimate the cost of a store with 42employees using the results from a simple regression of store coston employees.

Enter the regression coefficients. (Round your answers to 2decimal places. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minussign.)

	Intercept Employees

Estimate the cost of a store with 42 employees using the resultsfrom a simple regression of store cost on employees. (Round yourintermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimalplaces.)

	Store cost