Tail-Feather Length in Birds Is Sometimes a Sexually Dimorphic Trait;

Multiple Choice

Tail-feather length in birds is sometimes a sexually dimorphic trait; that is, the trait differs substantially for males and for females of the same species. Researchers studied the relationship between tail-feather length (measuring the R1 central tail feather) and weight in a sample of 20 male long-tailed finches raised in an aviary. The data are displayed in the scatterplot below, followed with software output about the least-squares regression model of feather length as a function of weight.
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\begin{array}{l}\begin{array} { l l r } \hline &\text {Coefficients }&\text {Standard Error }\\\hline\text {Intercept }&35.7379 & 21.0523 \\\text { Bird-weight}&2.8299 & 1.2811\\\hline\text {R Square }&0.2133\\\text {Standard Error }&\ 10.5270\\end{array}\end{array} We want to test the hypotheses H₀: β = 0 versus H_a: β > 0, where β is the true value of the population slope. What is the value of the t statistic for this test?

A) 1.28
B) 1.70
C) 2.21
D) 2.83