Degrees of Freedom in t-Distribution for Simple Regression without a Constant

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Homework Statement



Simple regression without a constant
Yi = Bxi + epsi for i = 1,2,...n
epsi are independent and N(0, sigma^2) distributed, B and sigma^2 are unknown.

All my sums are from i = 1 to n
The question is: Explain why:
[tex]\frac{\hat{B} - B}{S} \sqrt{\sum{x_i^2}}[/tex]
is t-distirbuted with n-1 degrees of freedom.

[tex]\hat{B}[/tex] is the least square estimator for B, and S^2 is the least square estiamtor for sigma^2


I'm not sure how to start solving the problem. My first idea was that this looket like a standard t-distribution for [tex]\hat{B}[/tex], but [tex]\sqrt{n} \neq \sqrt{\sum{x_i^2}}[/tex]

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Can you say;
If
[tex]\frac{\hat{B} - B}{S}\sqrt{n}[/tex] is t-distributed then:
[tex]\frac{\hat{B} - B}{S} \sqrt{\sum{x_i^2}}[/tex]
is t-distributed since n and the x are just numbers?
And can you go further and say that if the first have (n-1) degrees of freedom then the second equation also has to?