The coefficient of determination is closest to:

A. 0.0211.

B. 0.9789.

C. 0.9894.

Espey Jones is examining the relation between the net profit margin (NPM) of companies, in percent, and their fixed asset turnover (FATO). He collected a sample of 35 companies for the most recent fiscal year and fit several different functional forms, settling on the following model:
ln(NPM_i)= b₀ + b₁FATO_i.
The results of this estimation are provided in Exhibit 1.

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Exhibit 1: Results of Regressing NPM on FATO Sum of Squares Source Regression Residual Total Intercept FATO df 1 32 33 Coefficients 0.5987 0.2951 102.9152 2.2152 105.1303 Standard Error 0.0561 0.0077 Mean Square 102.9152 0.0692 t- Statistic 10.6749 38.5579 F 1,486.7079 p-Value 0.0000 0.0000 p-Value 0.0000