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Transcribed Image Text:Stonebuilt Concrete produces a specialty cement used in construction of roads. Stonebuilt is a price-setting firm and estimates the demand for its cement by the
state department of transportation using a demand function in the nonlinear form:
Q = a pb M pdr
where Q= yards of cement demanded monthly, P= the price of Stonebuilt's cement per yard, M= state tax revenues per capita, and PR = the price of asphalt per
yard. The manager at Stonebuilt transforms the nonlinear relation into a linear relation for estimation. The estimation results are presented below:
F-RATIO
84.872
STANDARD
P-VALUE ON F
DEPENDENT VARIABLE: LNQ R-SQUARE
OBSERVATIONS: 64
0.8093
0.0001
PARAMETER
VARIABLE
ESTIMATE
ERROR
T-RATIO
P-VALUE
INTERCEPT
LNP
2.04
-2.16
3.38
0.0461
0.0357
0.0014
0.0439
8.20
4.01
-3.54
0.64287
0.7854
1.64
LNM
0.19
LNPR
0.38
2.07
If the price of asphalt (PR) decreases 15%, the estimated quantity of cement demanded will:
Multiple Choice
increase 5.2%.
increase 11.8%.
increase 1.18%.
decrease 11.8%.
decrease 5.2%.
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