A Real Estate Analyst Believes That the Three Main Factors

question 47

Multiple Choice

A real estate analyst believes that the three main factors that influence an apartment's rent in a college town are the number of bedrooms, the number of bathrooms, and the apartment's square footage. For 40 apartments, she collects data on the rent (y, in $) , the number of bedrooms (x₁) , the number of bathrooms (x₂) , and its square footage (x₃) . She estimates the following model as Rent = β₀ + β₁Bedroom + β₂Bath + β₃Sqft + ε. The following ANOVA table shows a portion of the regression results. The standard deviation of the difference between actual rent and the estimate of rent is ________.

• A) 40
• B) 50.88
• C) 193
• D) 37,310

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