1. A multiple regression analysis produced the following tables.

The regression equation for this analysis is ____________.

a) ŷ = 1959.71 + 0.46 x1 + 2.16 x2
b) ŷ = 1959.71 - 0.46 x1 + 2.16 x2
c) ŷ = 1959.71 - 0.46 x1 - 2.16 x2
d) ŷ =1959.71 + 0.46 x1 - 2.16 x2
e) ŷ =- 0.46 x1 – 2.16 x2

2. A multiple regression analysis produced the following tables.

The regression equation for this analysis is ____________.
a) ŷ = 1959.71 + 0.46 x1 + 2.16 x2
b) ŷ = 1959.71 - 0.46 x1 + 2.16 x2
c) ŷ = 1959.71 - 0.46 x1 - 2.16 x2
d) ŷ =1959.71 + 0.46 x1 - 2.16 x2
e) ŷ =- 0.46 x1 – 2.16 x2

3. A multiple regression analysis produced the following tables.

Predictor Coefficients Standard Error t Statistic p-value

Intercept 624.5369 78.49712 7.956176 6.88E-06

x1 8.569122 1.652255 5.186319 0.000301

x2 4.736515 0.699194 6.774248 3.06E-05

Source df SS MS F p-value

Regression 2 1660914 830457.1 58.31956 1.4E-06

Residual 11 156637.5 14239.77

Total 13 1817552

These results indicate that ____________.

a) none of the predictor variables are significant at the 5% level
b) each predictor variable is significant at the 5% level
c) x1 is the only predictor variable significant at the 5% level
d) x2 is the only predictor variable significant at the 5% level
e) the intercept is not significant at 5% level

4. A quality manager is developing a regression model to predict the total number of defects
as a function of the day of the week that the item is produced. Production runs are done 10
hours a day, 7 days a week. The explanatory variable is ______.
a) day of week
b) production run
c) percentage of defects
d) number of defects
e) number of production runs

5. A cost accountant is developing a regression model to predict the total cost of producing a
batch of printed circuit boards as a linear function of batch size (the number of boards
produced in one lot or batch). The intercept of this model is the ______.
a) batch size
b) unit variable cost
c) fixed cost
d) total cost
e) total variable cost

6. A researcher has developed a regression model from fourteen pairs of data points. He
wants to test if the slope is significantly different from zero. He uses a two- tailed test and 
= 0.01. The critical table t value is _______.
a) 2.650
b) 3.012
c) 3.055
d) 2.718
e) 2.168

7. A researcher has developed a regression model from fifteen pairs of data points. He wants
to test if the slope is significantly different from zero. He uses a two-tailed test and  = 0.10.
The critical table t value is _______.
a) 1.771
b) 1.350
c) 1.761
d) 2.145
e) 2.068
8. Suppose the owners of a new bed and breakfast establishment are interested in conducting
an experiment to determine the most effective advertisement strategy for increasing the
number of reservations. The bed and breakfast owners intend to rotate advertisements for 12
weeks between a travel website, a travel magazine and a local billboard. Customers making
reservations will be asked where they saw the advertisement. In this experiment, the
independent variable is a ________________.
a) treatment variable
b) classification variable
c) experimental variable
d) design variable
e) research variable

9. A college administrator might want to determine if there are differences in credit hour
loads based on student living arrangements as well as student grade level. In this case, the
independent variable(s) is/are _________________.
a) credit hours
b) credit hours and living arrangements
c) living arrangements
d) grade level
e) living arrangements and grade level

10. Medical Wonders is a specialized interior design company focused on healing artwork.
The CEO, Kathleen Kelledy claims that artwork has healing effects for patients staying in a
hospital, as measured by reduced length of stay. Her current client is a children’s cancer
hospital. Kathleen is interested in determining the effect of three different pieces of healing
artwork on children. She chooses three paintings (a horse photo, a bright abstract, and a
muted beach scene) and randomly assigns six hospital rooms to each painting. Kathleen's null
hypothesis is _____________.
a)  1   2   3
b)  1   2   3
c)  1   2   3
d)  1   2   3
e)  1   2 ≥  3

11. A researcher is conducting a matched-pairs study. She gathers data on each pair in the
study resulting in:
Pair Group 1 Group 2
1 10 12
2 8 9
3 11 11
4 8 10
5 9 12

Assume that the data are normally distributed in the population. The degrees of freedom in
this problem are _______.
a) 4
b) 8
c) 5
d) 9
e) 3

12. Maureen McIlvoy, owner and CEO of a mail order business for wind surfing equipment
and supplies, is reviewing the order filling operations at her warehouses. Her goal is 100% of
orders shipped within 24 hours. In previous years, neither warehouse has achieved the goal,
but the West Coast Warehouse has consistently out-performed the East Coast Warehouse.
Her staff randomly selected 200 orders from the West Coast Warehouse (population 1) and
400 orders from the East Coast Warehouse (population 2), and reports that 190 of the West
Coast Orders were shipped within 24 hours, and the East Coast Warehouse shipped 356
orders within 24 hours. Assuming = 0.05, the observed z value is ___________________.
a) -3.15
b) 2.42
c) 1.53
d) 0.95
e) 1.05

13. You are interested in determining the difference in two population means. You select a
random sample of 8 items from the first population and 8 from the second population and
then compute a 95% confidence interval. The sample from the first population has an average
of 12.2 and a standard deviation of 0.8. The sample from the second population has an
average of 11.7 and a standard deviation of 1.0. Assume that the values are normally
distributed in each population. The point estimate for the difference in means of these two
populations is ______.
a) −0.2
b) 0.2
c) 0.5
d) −0.5
e) 0.06