SCENARIO 13-5
a Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales

question 87

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 13-5
A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies.She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars.The Microsoft Excel output below shows results of this multiple regression. SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics
$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Multiple R } & 0.830 \\ \text { R Square } & 0.689 \\ \text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.662 \\ \text { Standard Error } & 17501.643 \\ \text { Observations } & 26 \end{array}$
ANOVA
$\begin{array} { l r c c c c } & d f & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & F & \text { Signif } F \\ \text { Regression } & 2 & 15579777040 & 7789888520 & 25.432 & 0.0001 \\ \text { Residual } & 23 & 7045072780 & 306307512 & & \\ \text { Total } & 25 & 22624849820 & & & \end{array}$


$\begin{array}{lrrrr} & \text { Coeff } & \text { StdError } & t \text { Stat } & \text { P-value } \\\text { Intercept } & 15800.0000 & 6038.2999 & 2.617 & 0.0154 \\\text { Capital } & 0.1245 & 0.2045 & 0.609 & 0.5485 \\\text { Wages } & 7.0762 & 1.4729 & 4.804 & 0.0001\end{array}$

-Referring to SCENARIO 13-5, what is the p-value for testing whether Wages have a negative impact on corporate sales?

• A)0.05
• B)0.0001
• C)0.00005
• D)0.99995

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