The Editors of a National Automotive Magazine Recently Studied 30

question 150

Multiple Choice

The editors of a national automotive magazine recently studied 30 different automobiles sold in the United States with the intent of seeing whether they could develop a multiple regression model to explain the variation in highway miles per gallon.A number of different independent variables were collected.The following regression output (with some values missing) was recently presented to the editors by the magazine's analysts: Based on this output and your understanding of multiple regression analysis,what is the critical value for testing the significance of the overall regression model at a 0.05 level of statistical significance?

• A)About F = 5.92
• B)Nearly F = 3.80
• C)Approximately F = 2.50
• D)None of the above

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