A Local Trucking Company Fitted a Regression to Relate the Travel

question 4

Multiple Choice

A local trucking company fitted a regression to relate the travel time (days) of its shipments as a function of the distance traveled (miles) .The fitted regression is Time = −7.126 + 0.0214 Distance,based on a sample of 20 shipments.The estimated standard error of the slope is 0.0053.Find the value of tcalc to test for zero slope.

• A)2.46
• B)5.02
• C)4.04
• D)3.15

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