Instruction 13.18 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

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Multiple Choice

Instruction 13.18
One of the most common questions of prospective house buyers pertains to the average cost of heating in dollars (Y) .
To provide its customers with information on that matter, a large real estate firm used the following four variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Celsius (X₁) , the amount of insulation in cm (X₂) , the number of windows in the house (X₃) and the age of the furnace in years (X₄) . Given below are the Microsoft Excel outputs of two regression models.

-Referring to Instruction 13.18,what are the degrees of freedom of the partial F test for H₀: β₃ = β₄ = 0 vs.H₁: At least one β_j ≠ 0,j = 3,4?

• A) 17 numerator degrees of freedom and 2 denominator degrees of freedom.
• B) 2 numerator degrees of freedom and 15 denominator degrees of freedom.
• C) 2 numerator degrees of freedom and 17 denominator degrees of freedom.
• D) 15 numerator degrees of freedom and 2 denominator degrees of freedom.

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