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Exhibit 2 Tо investigаte the vаluаtiоn оf residences in a large metropolitan area, a sample of 504 homes sold within the previous 6 months was extracted from public records and recorded in an Excel spreadsheet. A portion of that worksheet is displayed below. The selling price (Price column) along with size of the home in square feet (SqFt column), the zip code (Zip column) in which the home is located, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms the home has (BedRooms and Baths columns, respectively), the number of garage stalls (Garage column), and the style of the home (Style column) were recorded. The style of the home is coded as 1 for a ranch layout, 2 for a two-story layout, and 3 for a split-level layout.