SCENARIO 14-15
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 14-15, you can conclude definitively that instructional
spending per pupil individually has no impact on the mean percentage of students passing the
proficiency test, taking into account the effect of mean teacher salary, at a 1% level of
significance based solely on but not actually computing the 99% the confidence interval estimate
for β2 .

Question

SCENARIO 14-15 
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 14-15, you can conclude definitively that instructional
spending per pupil individually has no impact on the mean percentage of students passing the
proficiency test, taking into account the effect of mean teacher salary, at a 1% level of
significance based solely on but not actually computing the 99% the confidence interval estimate
for β2 .

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The p-value for the test of the null hypothesis that β2 = 0 is 0.012, which is less than the level of significance of 0.01. Therefore, we can conclude that instructional spending per pupil individually has an impact on the mean percentage of students passing the proficiency test, taking into account the effect of mean teacher salary, at a 1% level of significance.

SCENARIO 14-15 -True or False: Referring to Scenario 14-15, You Can Conclude