Construct a Confidence Interval About the Slope of the Least $95 \%$

question 58

Multiple Choice

Construct a Confidence Interval about the Slope of the Least -squares Regression Model
-The data below are the temperatures on randomly chosen days during the summer and the number of employee absences at a local company on those days. Construct a $95 \%$ confidence interval about the slope of the true least-squares regression line, for the data below, given that $\mathrm { y } = 0.449 \mathrm { x } - 30.27$ .

• A) \(( 0.367,0.530 )\)
• B) \(( - 1.760,2.658 )\)
• C) \(( 0.385,0.513 )\)
• D) \(( 0.371,0.527 )\)

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