The Data Referred to in This Question Were Collected from Several

question 29

Multiple Choice

The data referred to in this question were collected from several sales districts across the country.The data represent sales for a maker of asphalt roofing shingles.Information on the following variables is available. Partial SPSS regression output of a multiple regression model with sales as the response variable and the other four variables as predictor variables are given below. What proportion of the variation in sales is explained by the set of all four explanatory variables?

• A)-0.647
• B)0.558
• C)0.989
• D)0.995

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