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Given that, an electronics retailer used regression to find a simple model to predict sales growth in the first quarter of the new year (January through March). The model is good for 90 days, where x is the day. The model can be written as follows: ŷ = 101.32 + 2.48x where ŷ is in thousands of dollars. 

Then we have to predict the sales to be on day 90.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
The given model is 
 
Then to calculate the number of sales to be on day 90, we have to put in the model.
 
We get, 
 
And also it is given that ŷ is in thousands of dollars. So we have to multiply 1,000 to the answer.
 
Hence 

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