SCENARIO 18-2 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

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Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 18-2
One of the most common questions of prospective house buyers pertains to the cost of heating in dollars (Y) . To provide its customers with information on that matter, a large real estate firm used the following 4 variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit ( X₁ ) , the amount of insulation in inches ( X ₂ ) , the number of windows in the house ( X₃ ) , and the age of the furnace in years ( X ₄ ) . Given below are the EXCEL outputs of two regression models.


-Referring to Scenario 18-1,what is the predicted house size (in hundreds of square feet) for an individual earning an annual income of $40,000,having a family size of 4,and going to school a total of 13 years?

• A)11.43
• B)15.15
• C)24.88
• D)53.87

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