SCENARIO 14-20-B
You Are the CEO of a Dairy Company $\left( X _ { 1 } \right)$

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SCENARIO 14-20-B
You are the CEO of a dairy company. You are planning to expand milk production by purchasing
additional cows, lands and hiring more workers. From the existing 50 farms owned by the company,
you have collected data on total milk production (in liters), the number of milking cows, land size (in
acres) and the number of laborers. The data are shown below and also available in the Excel file
Scenario14-20-DataB.XLSX.
MILK 84686 101876 103248 70508 76072 86615 87508 105195 120351 68658
You believe that the number of milking cows $\left( X _ { 1 } \right)$ , land size $\left( X _ { 2 } \right)$ and the number of laborers $\left( X _ { 3 } \right)$ are the best predictors for total milk production on any given farm.
-Referring to Scenario 14-20-B, what are the numerator and denominator degrees of freedom,
respectively, for the test statistic to determine whether there is a significant relationship between
total milk production and the entire set of explanatory variables?

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Definitions:

Output

The total amount of goods or services produced by a company, industry, or economy over a specific period of time.

Least-Cost Combination

is an economic principle where firms aim to produce a given output at the minimum possible cost by choosing the optimal combination of inputs.

Purely Competitive Conditions

Purely competitive conditions describe a market situation where numerous small firms compete against each other, selling homogeneous products, with no single firm able to influence market prices.

MU

MU typically stands for Marginal Utility, which is the additional satisfaction or utility that a consumer receives from consuming one more unit of a good or service.