TABLE 14-4
a Real Estate Builder Wishes to Determine How

question 166

Multiple Choice

TABLE 14-4
A real estate builder wishes to determine how house size (House) is influenced by family income (Income) , family size (Size) , and education of the head of household (School) . House size is measured in hundreds of square feet, income is measured in thousands of dollars, and education is in years. The builder randomly selected 50 families and ran the multiple regression.
Microsoft Excel output is provided below:
$\begin{array}{ll} & \text { Regression Stuistics } \\\hline \text { Multiple R } & 0.865 \\\text { R Square } & 0.748 \\\text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.726 \\\text { Standard Error } & 5.195 \\\text { Observations } &50 \\\hline\end{array}$
ANOVA
$\begin{array}{lrrrrr}\hline & \text { d f }& \text {S S } & \text {M S } & \text {F } & \text {Significance F } \\\hline \text {Regression} & & 3605.7736 & 1201.9245 & &0.0000 \\\text {Residual} & & 1214.2264 & 26.3962 & \\Total & 49 & 4820.0000 & & & \\\hline\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{lcccc}\hline & \text { Coefficients} & \text {Standard Error} & \text {t Stat }& \text {p -value} \\\hline \text {Intercept }& -1.6335 & 5.8078 & -0.281 & 0.7798 \\ \text {Income} & 0.4485 & 0.1137 & 3.9545 & 0.0003 \\ \text {Size} & 4.2615 & 0.8062 & 5.286 & 0.0001 \\ \text {School }& -0.6517 & 0.4319 & -1.509 & 0.1383 \\\hline\end{array}$

-Referring to Table 14-4, which of the following values for the level of significance is the smallest for which the regression model as a whole is significant?

• A) 0.0005
• B) 0.001
• C) 0.05
• D) 0.01

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Definitions:

Total Assets

The sum of all assets owned by a company, including both current (short-term) and non-current (long-term) assets, representing the total resources at its disposal.

Income Statement

A document detailing a firm's incomes and expenditures within a certain timeframe, ultimately revealing the net profit or deficit for that interval.

Revenues

The aggregate sum of funds a business accrues from selling goods or delivering services in a given timeframe.

Expenses

Costs incurred by a business in the process of earning revenue, often classified as operating or non-operating expenses.