A Company Studying the Productivity of Its Employees on a New

question 81

Multiple Choice

A company studying the productivity of its employees on a new information system was interested in determining if the age (X) of data entry operators influenced the number
Of completed entries made per hour (Y) . The regression equation is yˆ = 14.374 − 0.145x .
Suppose the actual completed entries per hour for an operator who is 35 years old was 8.
The residual is

• A) -1.3
• B) 2.6
• C) -3.5
• D) 1.3
• E) -2.2

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