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What monthly payment, beginning next month, is required over the next 60 months to pay off a $10,000 debt today, if interest is charged at 14% per year, compounded monthly?

  1. $116.02
  2. $166.67
  3. $2070.54
  4. $1,400.54
  5. $232.68

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

On the BAII Plus, press 60 N, 14 divide 12 = I/Y, 10000 PV, 0 FV, CPT PMT. On the HP12C, press 60 n, 14 ENTER 12 divide i, 10000 PV, 0 FV, PMT. Make sure the BAII Plus has the P/Y value set to 1.



What value does the null hypothesis make a claim about?

  1. None of these answers
  2. Population parameter
  3. Sample mean
  4. Type II error
  5. Sample statistic

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

The null hypothesis makes claims regarding the values that the population parameter may take.



For a negatively skewed, unimodal distribution, which of the following relationships holds?

  1. mode < median
  2. mean > median
  3. mean < median
  4. mean > mode

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

In a negatively skewed distribution, very low values are more common than correspondingly large values. This skews the distribution to the left, moving the mean to the left of the median.



The research analyst for a stock brokerage firm wants to compare the dispersion in the price-earnings ratios for a group of common stock with their return on investment. For the price-earnings ratios, the mean is 10.9 and the standard deviation is 1.8. The mean return on investment is 25 percent and the standard deviation is 5.2 percent. What is the relative dispersion for the price earnings ratios and return on investment?

  1. None of these answers
  2. Ratios 50.0 percent, investment 10.0 percent
  3. Ratios 132.0 percent, investment 190.0 percent
  4. Ratios 32.0 percent, investment 19.0 percent
  5. Ratios 16.5 percent, investment 20.8 percent

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

The respective CVs are found from (s*100)/mean. Ratios: 1.8*100/10.9 = 16.5% and investment: 5.2*100/25 = 20.8%.






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