A stock is trading at $80. The stock is expected to have a year-end dividend of $4 per share (D1=$4), is expected to grow at some constant rate g throughout time. The stocks required rate of return is 14%. If markets are efficient, what is the forcast of g?
What are situations in the business world or real life where one would need to calculate or estimate probabilities? From a business perspective, which measurement is more important: the mode, mean, or median?
a) Construct a scatter diagram for the following data: x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 y 10 10 11 12 12 13 15 18 21 25 x 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 y 26 29 33 39 46 60 79 88 100 130 Find the coefficient of correlation and the coefficient of determination. Now find the log of y and rec
Intel has the choice of borrowing dollars at 9.5% or yen at 7% for one year. The current exchange rate is ?152=$1. At what end of year exchange rate would the yen costs of these two loans be equal? The balance of each loan is compared after one year. Setting these balances equal to each other gives you a ratio which is the d
Remembering an advertisement is great, but does the viewer connect that with the brand name? Recall is an important aspect of purchase intention. To measure how well a nationally branded product is doing with regard to consumer recall, you will complete a study of your choice. Select a Branded product (target product) that
A contingent liability should be created if it probable that the liability will occur and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. How is the probability of an event occurring determined? Is this based on an estimate of the likelihood of the event occurring?
A statistics professor plans classes so carefully that the lengths of her classes are uniformly distributed between 48.0 and 58.0 minutes. Find the probability that a given class period runs greater than 50.75 minutes. (Round to three decimal)
1) As noted in the text, when considering which variables to include in a model, "an almost infinite number of extraneous variables exist" (Cooper & Schindler, 2006, p. 41). Discuss techniques for identifying variables in a problem at your business and what types of variables are dismissed as extraneous. Cooper, D., & Schin
There is a 0.1081 probability that a best-of-seven contest will last four games, a 0.1171 probability that it will last five games, a 0.2466 probability that it will last six games, and a 0.5282 probability that it will last seven games. Verify that this is a probability distribution. Find its mean and standard deviation. Is it
A government agency has specialist who analyze the frequencies of letters of the alphabet in an attempt to decipher intercepted message. In standard English text, a particular letter is used at a rate of 5.9% a. Find the mean and standard deviation for the number of times this letter will be found on a typical page of 1800 ch
A candy company claims that 17% of its plain candies are orange, and a sample of 100 such candies is randomly selected. a. Find the mean and standard deviation for the number of orange candies in such groups of 100. b. A random sample of 100 candies contains 5 orange candies. Is this result unusual? Does it seem that t
Variation in the Universe What are the implications of statistical variation? Why are we interested in understanding and measuring variation? Besides using variation in the world of quality, there are also social implications. For example, what does statistical variation suggest about how we ought to judge and treat oursel
The day after a snow storm, cars arrive at Mel's Auto-Wash at an average rate of 10 per hour according to a Poisson process. The automated car washing process takes exactly 5 minutes from start to finish. a. What is the probability that an arriving car will find the car wash empty? b. On average, how many cars are waiting
1. Sullivan Co.'s accounts receivable show the following balances by age: Age of Receivable Balance 0-30 days $600,000 31-60 days 175,000 61-120 days 70,000 more than 120 days 10,000 The credit balance in the allowance for uncollectible accounts is $2,500. Sullivan Co. uses the following percentages to compute the e
1. What is statistical process control? 2. How can Statistical Process Control methods help to minimize errors? 3. What are the potential benefits of this control process. **************************** Unisys Corp's Costly Experiment in Health Care Services When Unisys Corp. expanded into the computerized health ca
Suppose a firm's common stock paid a dividend of $2.50 yesterday. You expect the dividend to grow at the rate of 5% per year for the next 3 years, if you buy the stock, you plan to hold it for 3 years and then sell it. a.Find the expected dividend for each of the next 3 years; in other words, calculate D1 , D2 and D3 . Note
You buy a share of The Ludwig Corporation stock for $23.90. You expect it to pay dividends of $1.08, $1.13, and $1.1823 in Years 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and you expect to sell it at a price of $29.89 at the end of 3 years. a.Calculate the growth rate in dividends. Round your answer to two decimal places. ? % b.Cal
Nick's Enchiladas Incorporated has preferred stock outstanding that pays a dividend of $3 at the end of each year. The preferred stock sells for $55 a share. What is the stock's required rate of return?
Boehm Incorporated is expected to pay a $1.70 per share dividend at the end of this year (i.e., D1 = $1.70). The dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% a year. The required rate of return on the stock, rs, is 13%. What is the value per share of the company's stock?
Thress Industries just paid a dividend of $2.75 a share.The dividend is expected to grow 5% a year for the next 3 years and then at 11% a year thereafter. What is the expected dividend per share for each of the next 5 years?
A certain company reduced its management staff from 20 managers to 16. The company claimed that four managers were randomly selected for job termination. However, the four managers chosen are the four oldest managers among the 20 that were employed. Answer the questions below. a. Find the probability that when four managers
With one method of a procedure called acceptance sampling, a sample of items is randomly selected without replacement and the entire batch is accepted if every item in the sample is okay. A company has just manufactured 1152 CDs, and 87 are defective. If 10 of these CDs are randomly selected for testing, what is the probability
Suppose you hold a diversified portfolio consisting of a $7,500 investment in each of 20 different common stocks. The portfolio's beta is 0.85. Now, suppose you sell one of the stocks with a beta of 1.0 for $7,500 and use the proceeds to buy another stock whose beta is 0.95. Calculate your portfolio's new beta.
An individual has $50,000 invested in a stock with a beta of 0.8 and another $45,000 invested in a stock with a beta of 1.9. If these are the only two investments in her portfolio, what is her portfolio's beta? Round your answer to two decimal places.
The data below are the final exam scores of 10 randomly selected statistics students and the number of hours they studied for the exam. Find the correlation coefficient between hours studied and final exam scores. Is there a weak or strong, positive or negative correlation between hours studied and final exam scores? Hours x
A manager wishes to determine the relationship between the number of miles (in hundreds of miles) the manager's sales representatives travel per month and the amount of sales (in thousands of dollars) per month. Find the equation of the regression line for the given data. Predict the value of sales when the sales representative
Shi Importer's balance sheet shows $300 million in debt, $50 million in preferred stock, and $250 million in total common equity. Shi's tax rate is 40%, rd = 6%, rps = 5.8%, and rs = 12%. If Shi has a target capital structure of 30% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 65% common stock, what is its WACC?
Your firm has been hired to help ABC Company to estimate the cost of common equity. The yield on the firm's bonds is 5.75%, and your firm's economists believe that the cost of common equity can be estimated using a risk premium of 2.5% over a firm's own cost of debt. What is an estimate of the firm's cost of common equity from
Discuss the terms listed below. Explain why these concepts are important to financial statements. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP); International Accounting Standards (IFRS); and Liquidity.
Mike and Lisa formed a partnership at the beginning of the year. They were equal partners and they had the same basis. When the partnership was formed, Mike contributed the following items: Basis FMV Building $150,000 $200,000 Land