A Random Sample of 79 Companies from the Forbes 500

question 5

Multiple Choice

A random sample of 79 companies from the Forbes 500 list (which actually consists of nearly 800 companies) was selected,and the relationship between sales (in hundreds of thousands of dollars) and profits (in hundreds of thousands of dollars) was investigated by regression.The following results were obtained from statistical software. The following (partial) ANOVA table was obtained from statistical software. What is the value of the SST,the total sum of squares?

• A)16,074,978
• B)16,734,234
• C)32,809,212
• D)49,543,448

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