TABLE 13-6 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

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TABLE 13-6
One of the most common questions of prospective house buyers pertains to the cost of heating in dollars (Y) . To provide its customers with information on that matter, a large real estate firm used the following four variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit (X1) , the amount of insulation in inches (X2) , the number of windows in the house (X3) , and the age of the furnace in years (X4) . Given below are the Microsoft Excel outputs of two regression models.


-Referring to Table 13-6, what is the 90% confidence interval for the expected change in heating costs as a result of a 1 degree Fahrenheit change in the daily minimum outside temperature using Model 1?

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