SCENARIO 14-4 A Real Estate Builder Wishes to Determine How House Size

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SCENARIO 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 (X₁ | X₂) = 3297.7917
-Referring to Scenario 14-3,what is the predicted consumption level for an economy with GDP equal to $4 billion and an aggregate price index of 150?

• A)$1.39 billion
• B)$2.89 billion
• C)$4.75 billion
• D)$9.45 billion

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Definitions:

Productive Efficiency

A situation in which an economy or a production process can no longer produce more of one good without sacrificing the production of another good and occurs at any point on the production possibility frontier.

Product Variety

The range of different products or services offered by a company or available in a market.

Benefits

Advantages or positive outcomes that result from actions, policies, or products.

Monopolistically Competitive Markets

Markets characterized by many sellers offering products that are similar but not identical, allowing for some degree of market power and price differentiation.