Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

question 39

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question. A statistics professor is interested in learning whether there is a positive association between number of posts by online students on a message board and the final class average in an online statistics course. The computer output below shows the results from a regression model in which the final class average was predicted by the number of message board posts. Assume that the conditions of the linear regression model are satisfied.

-Choose the correct observed value of the test statistic and the p- value. Round to the nearest thousandth.

• A)t = 0.777, p = 0.002
• B)t = 3.708, p = 0.002
• C)t = 0.002, p = 3.707
• D)t = 3.708, p = 0.005

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