Just as you are about to estimate a regression (due tomorrow), massive sunspots cause magnetic interference that

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Just as you are about to estimate a regression (due tomorrow), massive sunspots cause magnetic interference that ruins all electrically powered machines (e.g., computers). Instead of giving up and flunking, you decide to calculate estimates from your data (on per capita income in thousands of U.S. dollars as a function of the percent of the labor force in agriculture in 10 developed countries) using methods like those used in Section 2.1 without a computer. Your data are:

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a. Calculate ­β̂0 and ­β̂1.

b. Calculate R2 and R̅2.

c. If the percent of the labor force in agriculture in another developed country was 8 percent, what level of per capita income (in thousands of U.S. dollars) would you guess that country had?

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