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,________% of the variation in the house size can be explained by the variation in the family size while holding the family income constant.

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