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Refer to the Following:
a Consulting Firm Estimates the Following Qt=a+bt+cDQ _ { t } = a + b t + c D

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Refer to the following:
A consulting firm estimates the following quarterly sales forecasting model:
Qt=a+bt+cDQ _ { t } = a + b t + c D
The equation is estimated using quarterly data from 2003I-2013III (t = 1,..., 43) . The variable D is a dummy variable for the second quarter where:
D = 1 in the second quarter, and 0 otherwise.
The results of the estimation are:
 DEPENDENT VARIABLE:  QT  R-SQUARE  F-RATIO  P-VALUE ONF  OBSERVATIONS: 430.8644127.50.0001 VARIABLE  PARAMETER  STANDARD  ESTIMATE  ERROR  T-RATIO  P-VALUE  INTERCEPT 22.59.322.410.0201 T 1.860.553.380.0016 D 2.00.712.820.0075\begin{array}{rllll}\text { DEPENDENT VARIABLE: } & \text { QT } & \text { R-SQUARE } & \text { F-RATIO } & \text { P-VALUE ONF } \\\text { OBSERVATIONS: } & 43 & 0.8644 & 127.5 & 0.0001\\\\\text { VARIABLE } & \text { PARAMETER } & \text { STANDARD } & \\&\text { ESTIMATE } & \text { ERROR } & \text { T-RATIO } & \text { P-VALUE } \\\text { INTERCEPT } & 22.5 & 9.32 & 2.41 & 0.0201 \\\text { T } & 1.86 & 0.55 & 3.38 & 0.0016 \\\text { D } & 2.0 & 0.71 & 2.82 & 0.0075\end{array}
-These estimates indicate that the second quarter change in sales is


A) 22.5 units higher in the second quarter than in the other three quarters.
B) 1.86 units higher in the second quarter than in the other three quarters.
C) 2.00 units higher in the second quarter than in the other three quarters.
D) 24.5 units higher in the second quarter than in the other three quarters.

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