Instruction 12 $\text { Regressing average grade on university entrance exam score }$

Instruction 12.32
It is believed that average grade (based on a four-point scale) should have a positive linear relationship with university entrance exam scores. Given below is the Microsoft Excel output from regressing average grade on university entrance exam scores using a data set of eight randomly chosen students from a large university.
$\text { Regressing average grade on university entrance exam score }$

$\text { Regression statistics }$
$\begin{array}{|l|l|}\hline\text { MultipleR } & 0.7598 \\\hline \text { R Square } & 0.5774 \\\hline \begin{array}{l}\text { Adjusted R } \\\text { Square }\end{array} & 0.5069 \\\hline \text { Standard Error } & 0.2691 \\\hline \text { Observations } & 8\\\hline\end{array}$

$\text { ANOVA }$
$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}\hline & d f & 55 & M S & F & \begin{array}{l}\text { Significance } \\F\end{array} \\\hline \text { Regression } & 1 & 0.5940 & 0.5940 & 8.1986 & 0.0286 \\\hline \text { Residual } & 6 & 0.4347 & 0.0724 & & \\\hline \text { Total } & 7 & 1.0287 & & & \\\hline\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}\hline & \text { Coefficients } & \begin{array}{l}\text { Standard } \\\text { Error }\end{array} & \text { tStat } & \text { p-value } & \text { Lower 95\% } & \text { Upper 95\% } \\\hline \text { Intercept } & 0.5681 & 0.9284 & 0.6119 & 0.5630 & -1.7036 & 2.8398 \\\hline \begin{array}{l}\text { University } \\\text { entrance exam } \\\text { score }\end{array} & 0.1021 & 0.0356 & 2.8633 & 0.0286 & 0.0148 & 0.1895 \\\hline\end{array}$
-Referring to Instruction 12.32,the value of the measured test statistic to test whether there is any linear relationship between average grade and university entrance exam score is

A) 2.8633.
B) 0.7598.
C) 0.0356.
D) 0.1021.