Amajor publishing company would like to develop an equation that will it in determining the cost of books that it publishes. it has a sample of 207 books that have been published recently. of the 207 books in the sample, 83 are hardcover and 124 are softcover. hardcover books obviously are priced at a premium, so some adjustment for this will need to be made. the variables in the worksheet entitled "bookcost7r" are as follows.
cost = the cost of producing the bookpages = the number of pages in the booksoftcover = 1 if the book is softcover and 0 if it is hardcoverdevelop an equation that will the publisher to predict cost for books to be published in the future.