THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 210

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A production manager is interested in modeling the determinants of the average cost of production.He creates the following model: Y = β₀ + β₁X₁ + β₂X₂ + β₃


+ ε,where X₁ is the cost per unit of the primary input,and X₂ is the level of output.He examines the records over the past 45 production runs and obtains the following results:
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-What would the manager's null and alternative hypotheses for testing the significance of β₂ be?

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