THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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Essay

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
For a sample of 20 monthly observations a financial analyst wants to regress the percentage rate of return (y)of the common stock of a corporation on the percentage rate of return (x)of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index.The following summary statistics are available:
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-Interpret the intercept of the sample regression line.

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