SCENARIO 18-2 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

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SCENARIO 18-2
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 4 variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit ( X₁ ) , the amount of insulation in inches ( X ₂ ) , the number of windows in the house ( X₃ ) , and the age of the furnace in years ( X ₄ ) . Given below are the EXCEL outputs of two regression models.


-Referring to Scenario 18-1,the observed value of the F-statistic is missing from the printout.What are the degrees of freedom for this F-statistic?

• A)46 for the numerator,3 for the denominator
• B)3 for the numerator,49 for the denominator
• C)46 for the numerator,49 for the denominator
• D)3 for the numerator,46 for the denominator

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