Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
National birth rates (births per 1,000) may be influenced by the average national life expectancy in years and the national literacy rate (% of population that can read and write) . Data for 49 countries were obtained and the regression results follow.

-The calculated t-statistic to determine if literacy is a significant independent variable in explaining birth rates is

A) -5.48
B) 5.48
C) 5.23
D) 61.07
E) indeterminate.