A Study of the Top 75 MBA Programs Attempted to Predict

question 16

Multiple Choice

A study of the top 75 MBA programs attempted to predict the average starting salary (in $\$ 1000$ 's) of graduates of the program based on the amount of tuition (in $\$ 1000$ 's) charged by the program. We are told that the coefficient of correlation was calculated to be $r = 0.7763$ . Use this information to calculate the test statistic that would be used to determine if a positive linear relationship exists between the two variables.

• A) \(t = 1.760\)
• B) \(t = 10.52\)
• C) \(t = 1.475\)
• D) \(t = 0.6027\)

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