TABLE 13-1 A Large National Bank Charges Local Companies for Using Their

question 19

Multiple Choice

TABLE 13-1
A large national bank charges local companies for using their services.A bank official reported the results of a regression analysis designed to predict the bank's charges (Y) -measured in dollars per month-for services rendered to local companies.One independent variable used to predict service charges to a company is the company's sales revenue (X) -measured in millions of dollars.Data for 21 companies who use the bank's services were used to fit the model:
Y_i = β₀ + β₁X_i + ε_i
The results of the simple linear regression are provided below.
-Referring to Table 13-1,interpret the p-value for testing whether β₁exceeds 0.

• A)There is sufficient evidence (at the α = 0.05)to conclude that sales revenue (
• X)is a useful linear predictor of service charge (
• Y).
• B)There is insufficient evidence (at the α = 0.10)to conclude that sales revenue (
• X)is a useful linear predictor of service charge (
• Y).
• C)Sales revenue (
• X)is a poor predictor of service charge (
• Y).
• D)For every $1 million increase in sales revenue,you expect a service charge to increase $0.034.

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