SAS A00-240 Exam - Topic 8 Question 118 Discussion

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Question #: 118
Topic #: 8

Customers were surveyed to assess their intent to purchase a product. An analyst divided the customers into groups defined by the company's pre-assigned market segments and tested for difference in the customers' average intent to purchase. The following is the output from the GLM procedure:

What percentage of customers' intent to purchase is explained by market segment?

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A<0.01%

B35%

C65%

D76%

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Suggested Answer: D

by Florinda at Nov 20, 2025, 11:54 AM

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Valene

8 days ago

I agree, 76% sounds right to me!

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Leeann

13 days ago

Haha, looks like the analysts have cracked the code to predicting customer behavior. 76% is no joke!

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Rozella

18 days ago

76%? That's impressive. I bet the company can use this information to really target their marketing efforts to each segment effectively.

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Mee

23 days ago

I'm surprised the R-squared is so high. That's a very strong relationship between market segment and purchase intent. I wonder what the other factors are that account for the remaining 24%.

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Lyla

28 days ago

Wow, 76% is a really high percentage. This analysis must have done a great job of capturing the differences between the market segments.

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Ona

1 month ago

The R-squared value of 0.76 indicates that 76% of the variation in customers' intent to purchase is explained by their market segment. That's a pretty significant amount.

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Mila

1 month ago

I vaguely recall that a higher percentage means a stronger relationship, so maybe it's D) 76%, but I need to double-check my notes.

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Penney

1 month ago

I feel like the answer could be higher than 35%, but I'm not confident if it's as high as 76%.

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Veronique

2 months ago

I think we practiced a similar question where we had to determine the percentage explained by a factor. I want to say it's around 65% based on that.

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Florencia

2 months ago

I remember something about R-squared values indicating how much variance is explained, but I'm not sure how to interpret it in this context.

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Yuki

2 months ago

This seems straightforward. I'll just need to find the R-squared value in the output and convert it to a percentage to get the answer.

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Virgina

2 months ago

Okay, I think I've got this. The R-squared value tells me how much of the variation in the dependent variable is explained by the independent variables. I just need to convert that to a percentage.

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