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

question 174

Multiple Choice

TABLE 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.
-Referring to Table 14-5, suppose the microeconomist wants to test whether the coefficient on Capital is significantly different from 0. What is the value of the relevant t-statistic?

• A) 0.609
• B) 2.617
• C) 4.804
• D) 25.432

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