Armer Company Is Accumulating Data to Use in Preparing Its

question 67

Multiple Choice

Armer Company is accumulating data to use in preparing its annual profit plan for the coming year. The cost behavior pattern of the maintenance costs must be determined. The accounting staff has suggested the use of linear regression to derive an equation for maintenance hours and costs. Data regarding the maintenance hours and costs for the last year and the results of the regression analysis follow:The percent of the total variance that can be explained by the regression equation is

• A) 99.724%.
• B) 69.613%.
• C) 80.982%.
• D) 99.862%.
• E) None of these answer choices are correct.

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