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What is a 95 percent confidence interval for the mean one-year extended-warranty expenditure per automobile?
The government is hoping to reduce the amount of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and determines that two firms are responsible for this pollution. For firm 1 the costs of pollution reduction are eq
True or false: "when computing an NPV, it does not matter if high inflows occur after low inflows or vice versa - the order payments has no effect on the NPV" why? What is high inflows and low inflo
Problem: Which of the following relationships is correct? a. When marginal product starts to decrease, marginal cost starts to decrease. b. When marginal cost starts to increase, average cost starts t
Over the second year, General Materials' stock price decreased by 10 percent and Standard Fixtures' stock price increased by 10 percent. Do these two stocks have the same prices today? Explain.
Problem: When comparing two projects with different returns and different standard deviations, the risk measure which can be used is called the
The appropriate discount rate for investments of this type is 12%. What is the most you should be willing to pay for the office building today?
(1) What is the socially efficient level of emissions abatement? Solve and graph in the space below. (2) What are the marginal damages and marginal costs of abatement at the socially efficient level
Explain how diversification affects risk and how correlation between securities affects portfolio risk.
Problem 1. Which of the following is true regarding the contribution margin ratio of a single product company?
1) Compare book value (net worth) per share 2) If there is $48,000 in earnings available to common stockholders and the firm's stock has a P/E of 20 times earnings per share, what is the current pr
You may discuss its implication in both short run and long run for the stability of the US economy as compared to its current roller coaster state of uncertainty in the Wall Street (and in the Main
Becker also provides the market stabilization function. During the issuance, the market for the stock turns soft, and Becker is forced to purchase 40,000 shares in the open market at an average pric
Problem 1: Compute the bond's expected rate of return Problem 2: Determine the value of the bond to you, given your required rate of return
Problem: What is the present value of $10,000 received. 1) 12 years from today when the interest rate is 4% per year? 2) 20 years from today when the interest rate is 8% per year?
Formulate this problem so as to determine how many medical beds and how many surgical beds should be added to maximize revenues. Assume that the hospital is open 365 days a year.
In July 2007 Apple had cash of $7.12 billion current assets of $18.75 billion current liability of $6.99 billion and inventories of $0.25 billion. What can you say about the asset liquidity of apple
An item of equipment is to be purchased for $250,000. The anticipated operating costs, maintenance costs and salvage values for each year are detailed in the table overleaf. Determine the economic l
The total cost of ore mining at an open pit is $ 2.60 per tonne and that for waste is $ 1.90 per tonne. If the value of the ore is $ 14.90 per tonne and the company requires a 20% profit margin, wha
a. Determine the expected selling price for the land. b. Determine the standard deviation of the possible sales prices. c. Determine the coefficient of variation.
Question 1. If you require a risk premium of 10%, how much will you be willing to pay for the portfolio? Question 2. Suppose the portfolio can be purchased for the amount you found in (1). What will
Rank the sensitivity of the following from most sensitive to an interest rate change to the least sensitive.
Problem: According to the theory of cost, specialization in the use of variable resources in the short-run results initially in:
What is the target population? What are the null and alternative hypotheses? Is the alternative one-sided (left tail), one-sided (right tail), or two-sided?
Q1. What is the accounting cost function for this business? Q2. What is the economic cost function for this business?