SCENARIO 13-4
a Real Estate Builder Wishes to Determine How

question 148

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SCENARIO 13-4
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: $\begin{array}{lr}\hline{\text { Regression Statistics }} \\\hline \text { Multiple R } & 0.8479 \\\text { R Square } & 0.7189 \\\text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.7069 \\\text { Standard Error } & 17.5571 \\\text { Observations } & 50\\\hline \end{array}$

$\text { ANOVA }$
$\begin{array}{lrrrrr} & d f & \text { SS } & {M S} & F & \text { Significance } F \\\hline \text { Regression } & & & 37043.3236 & 18521.6618 & 0.0000 \\\text { Residual } & & 14487.7627 & 308.2503 & \\\text { Total } & & 49 & 51531.0863 & &\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{lrrrr}\hline & \text { Coefficients } & \text { Standard Error } &{t \text { Stat }} & \text { P-value } \\\hline \text { Intercept } & -5.5146 & 7.2273 & -0.7630 & 0.4493 \\\text { Income } & 0.4262 & 0.0392 & 10.8668 & 0.0000 \\\text { Size } & 5.5437 & 1.6949 & 3.2708 & 0.0020\\\hline \end{array}$

$\text { Also } \operatorname{SSR}\left(X_{1} \mid X_{2}\right)=36400.6326 \text { and } \operatorname{SSR}\left(X_{2} \mid X_{1}\right)=3297.7917$


-Referring to SCENARIO 13-4, what annual income (in thousands of dollars) would an individual with a family size of 9 need to attain a predicted 5,000 square foot home (House = 50)?

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Definitions:

Total Utility

The total satisfaction or benefit received by consuming a particular amount of a good or service.

Marginal Utility

The extra pleasure or benefit gained by a consumer from using an additional unit of a product or service.

Utility-maximizing

Refers to the economic principle where individuals or households attempt to get the highest level of satisfaction from their resources.

Income

The money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.