A Local Parent Group Was Concerned with the Increasing School

question 36

Multiple Choice

A local parent group was concerned with the increasing school cost for families with school aged children.The parent group was interested in understanding the relationship between the
The academic grade level for the child and the total costs spent per child per academic year.They
Performed a multiple regression analysis using total cost as the dependent variable and academic
Year (x₁) as the independent variables.The multiple regression analysis produced the following
Tables.
For a child in grade 10 (x₁= 10) the predicted value of y is ____________.

• A) 707.91
• B) 1,117.38
• C) 856.08
• D) 2,189.54
• E) 1,928.24

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Binary Search

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Sorted List

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