SCENARIO 14-4 A Real Estate Builder Wishes to Determine How House Size

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SCENARIO 14-4
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:


Also SSR (X₁ | X₂) = 36400.6326 and SSR (X₁ | X₂) = 3297.7917
-Referring to Scenario 14-3,what is the estimated mean consumption level for an economy with GDP equal to $2 billion and an aggregate price index of 90?

• A)$1.39 billion
• B)$2.89 billion
• C)$4.75 billion
• D)$9.45 billion

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Definitions:

Constant Gross Margin Method

An inventory valuation method that maintains a fixed gross margin percentage for costing inventory despite changes in the cost of goods sold.

Joint Cost

The costs incurred in producing products up to a split-off point in a process that yields multiple products, typically allocated among the products based on some reasonable method.

Split-off

A point in the manufacturing process where multiple products are generated from a common input.

Opportunity Cost

The potential benefit lost when choosing one alternative over another.