Thane Company is interested in establishing the relationship between electricity costs and machine hours. Data have been collected and a regression analysis prepared using Excel. The monthly data and the regression output follow:
Month Machine Hours Electricity Costs
January 2,300 $ 19,100 
February 2,700 $ 22,400 
March 1,700 $ 14,200 
April 2,900 $ 24,400 
May 3,600 $ 28,950 
June 3,100 $ 23,400 
July 3,900 $ 25,450 
August 3,300 $ 23,450 
September 1,800 $ 16,900 
October 3,500 $ 27,400 
November 4,500 $ 32,400 
December 4,000 $ 28,450 
Summary Output
Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.957
R Square 0.917
Adjusted R2 0.908
Standard Error 1,586.26
Observations 12.00
 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95% Upper 95%
Intercept 5,970.52 1,766.77 3.38 0.01 2,033.90 9,907.13
Machine Hours 5.76 0.55 10.49 0.00 4.54 6.98
The percent of the total variance that can be explained by the regression is: