SCENARIO 14-6 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

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SCENARIO 14-6
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 2 variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit ( X₁ ) and the amount of insulation in inches ( X ₂ ) . Given below is EXCEL output of the regression model.



Also SSR (X₁ | X₂) = 8343.3572 and SSR (X₂ | X₁) = 4199.2672
-Referring to Scenario 14-5,one company in the sample had sales of $20 billion (Sales = 20,000) .This company spent $300 million on capital and $700 million on wages.What is the residual (in millions of dollars) for this data point?

• A)874.55
• B)622.87
• C)-790.69
• D)-983.56

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