SCENARIO 13-5
a Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales

SCENARIO 13-5
A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies.She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars.The Microsoft Excel output below shows results of this multiple regression. SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics
$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Multiple R } & 0.830 \\ \text { R Square } & 0.689 \\ \text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.662 \\ \text { Standard Error } & 17501.643 \\ \text { Observations } & 26 \end{array}$
ANOVA
$\begin{array} { l r c c c c } & d f & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & F & \text { Signif } F \\ \text { Regression } & 2 & 15579777040 & 7789888520 & 25.432 & 0.0001 \\ \text { Residual } & 23 & 7045072780 & 306307512 & & \\ \text { Total } & 25 & 22624849820 & & & \end{array}$


$\begin{array}{lrrrr} & \text { Coeff } & \text { StdError } & t \text { Stat } & \text { P-value } \\\text { Intercept } & 15800.0000 & 6038.2999 & 2.617 & 0.0154 \\\text { Capital } & 0.1245 & 0.2045 & 0.609 & 0.5485 \\\text { Wages } & 7.0762 & 1.4729 & 4.804 & 0.0001\end{array}$

-Referring to SCENARIO 13-5, the observed value of the F-statistic is given on the printout as25.432.What are the degrees of freedom for this F-statistic?

A) 25 for the numerator, 2 for the denominator
B) 2 for the numerator, 23 for the denominator
C) 23 for the numerator, 25 for the denominator
D) 2 for the numerator, 25 for the denominator