TABLE 14-15 the Superintendent of a School District Wanted to Predict the Predict

question 147

Short Answer

TABLE 14-15
The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth-grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing),mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries),and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending)of 47 schools in the state.
Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable,X₁ = Salaries and X₂ = Spending:
-Referring to Table 14-15,what is the value of the test statistic when testing whether instructional spending per pupil has any effect on percentage of students passing the proficiency test,taking into account the effect of mean teacher salary?

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