THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 71

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Consider a random sample of 25 observations of two variables x and y.The following summary statistics are available:
= 43.2,
= 195.6,
= 1357.2,
= 1253.4,and
= 4843.6.
-Which of the following is the slope of the sample regression line?

• A)0.43
• B)54.85
• C)0.978
• D)3.57

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