SCENARIO 14-5 A Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales Are Influenced

question 91

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 14-5
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.
Introduction to Multiple Regression 14-17
-Referring to Scenario 14-5, at the 0.01 level of significance, what conclusion should the
Microeconomist reach regarding the inclusion of Capital in the regression model?

• A) Capital is significant in explaining corporate sales and should be included in the model because its p-value is less than 0.01.
• B) Capital is significant in explaining corporate sales and should be included in the model because its p-value is more than 0.01.
• C) Capital is not significant in explaining corporate sales and should not be included in the model because its p-value is less than 0.01.
• D) Capital is not significant in explaining corporate sales and should not be included in the model because its p-value is more than 0.01.

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