TABLE 14-4 A Real Estate Builder Wishes to Determine How House Size

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TABLE 14-4
A real estate builder wishes to determine how house size (House)is influenced by family income (Income)and family size (Size).House size is measured in hundreds of square feet and income is measured in thousands of dollars.The builder randomly selected 50 families and ran the multiple regression.Partial Microsoft Excel output is provided below: Also SSR (X₁ ∣ X₂)= 36400.6326 and SSR (X₂ ∣ X₁)= 3297.7917
-Referring to Table 14-4,what is the predicted house size (in hundreds of square feet)for an individual earning an annual income of $40,000 and having a family size of 4?

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Definitions:

Inputs

Resources used in the production process, including labor, technology, and materials.

Economies Of Scale

Situation in which output can be doubled for less than a doubling of cost.

Increasing Returns

A situation where the addition of more units of input results in a more-than-proportional increase in output.

Competitive Market

A market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, such that no single party can dictate the market price.