THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 122

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
The manager of a used-car dealership is very interested in the resale price of used cars.The manager feels that the age of the car is important in determining the resale value.He collects data on the age and resale value of 15 cars and runs a regression analysis with the value of the car (in thousands of dollars) as the dependent variable and the age of the car (in years) as the independent variable.Unfortunately,the printout had lost some of the results,identified by"A" through"F".The partial results left are displayed below.
-What is the value of "C"?

• A)172.25
• B)162.42
• C)140.03
• D)182.99

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Definitions:

Occipital Cortex

The part of the brain located at the back of the head, crucial for processing visual information.

Temporal Cortex

Part of the cerebral cortex involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Unconscious Inference

A process postulated by Hermann von Helmholtz to explain certain perceptual phenomena such as size constancy. For example, an object is perceived to be at a certain distance and this is unconsciously taken into account in assessing its retinal image size, with the result that size constancy is maintained.

Size Constancy

The perceptual understanding that an object's size remains the same despite changes in the distance from which it is observed.