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NEW QUESTION 23
A company's Balance Sheet for the year ended Dec. 31, 2013 is as follows:
(In millions)
The company is MOST likely in which of the following industries?
- A. Civil aviation
- B. Commercial banking
- C. Retailing
- D. Pharmaceutical
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 24
A ski coach is interested in estimating the 68% confidence interval around the mean time (in seconds) of all the gold medal winners in Olympic downhill skiing. The coach collects the data, presented below, for all of the winners from 1948 to 2014. The mean of the sample is 122.5 seconds, with a standard deviation of 23 seconds. Which Excel function below is the BEST option for determining the 68% confidence interval?
Please note that the Excel functions for confidence intervals are =CONFIDENCE.NORM(alpha, standard_dev, size) and =CONFIDENCE.T(alpha, standard_dev, size).
- A. = 122.5 +- CONFIDENCE.NORM(0.32,23,18)
- B. = 122.5 +- CONFIDENCE.T(0.68,23,18)
- C. = 122.5 +- CONFIDENCE.T(0.32,23,18)
- D. = 122.5 +- CONFIDENCE.NORM(0.68,23,18)
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 25
A study was conducted to examine the effect of age, education level, number of minor legal offences, and daily alcohol consumption on annual income.
Which of the following hypothesis tests is NOT conducted in the multiple linear regression output table?
- A. A hypothesis test for the significance of annual income on the four independent variables
- B. A hypothesis test for the significance of age on annual income, provided that education level, number of minor legal offenses, and daily alcohol consumption remain constant
- C. A hypothesis test for the significance of education level on annual income, provided that age, number of minor legal offenses, and daily alcohol consumption remain constant
- D. A hypothesis test for the significance of all four independent variables on annual income
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 26
A cafe located near a university used to only sell one type of coffee for $1.50 a cup. It decided to start selling a new premium cup for $2.50 while still keeping its standard coffee at $1.50. What recent event might have prompted this new product offering?
- A. The opening of a large and expensive apartment complex close to the cafe
- B. The expansion of the university, displacing office buildings in the neighborhood
- C. An increase in the cafe's rent
- D. The university announcing decreased enrollment numbers for next year
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 27
On Valentine's Day, the price for a dozen roses typically rises 20 percent. What is the reason behind the increased price?
- A. There is a network effect in the demand for roses.
- B. There is a shortage of roses.
- C. The price of vases falls.
- D. Consumers' willingness to pay increases.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 28 
The data below represent the top 25 U.S. newspapers by average daily circulation (in thousands) in 2013. Based on the output, what is the standard deviation of this sample?
- A. 299,663.81
- B. 10.46
- C. 109.48
- D. 547.42
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 29
What is the main difference between the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)?
- A. IFRS is used globally and follows a principles-based approach.
- B. IFRS provides fewer accounting choices to companies compared to US GAAP.
- C. US GAAP follows a principles-based approach.
- D. IFRS is based on a rules-based approach.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 30
An individual is considering whether to fly or take the train for an upcoming trip. This individual works remotely for $10/hour, but will not be able to work while on the airplane or train. The flight would take two hours and cost $125; the train would take eight hours and cost $50. What are the respective total economic costs of taking the flight and taking the train?
- A. $145 and $130
- B. $125 and $50
- C. $75 and $175
- D. $20 and $80
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 31
A restaurant that sells hamburgers is considering lowering prices to gain market share. The restaurant pays $3,000 a month for the building it occupies, and ingredients and labor cost $2.50 per hamburger. If the restaurant expects to sell 2,000 hamburgers a month, what is the minimum price it could charge?
- A. $2.50
- B. $4.00
- C. $3.50
- D. $3.00
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 32
A shop owner wants to determine the effect of a new marketing strategy on the number of customers visiting the shop. What information should the shop owner consider when deciding whether to conduct a one-sided or two-sided hypothesis testing?
- A. The calculated one-sided and two-sided p-values
- B. The significance level
- C. The objective of the hypothesis test
- D. Analysis of the actual samples collected
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 33
After a new report concludes that airplane exhaust has a negative impact on the environment, a government regulation is introduced which reduces the number of flights airlines can make in a day by 10 percent. To comply with this regulation, a certain airline halves the frequency of flights on several of its routes but maintains its original fleet of airplanes. What happens to the costs for the airline?
- A. Total costs will fall by 10 percent.
- B. Total costs for the airline will increase.
- C. Cost for each additional flight will increase.
- D. Average cost per flight will increase.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 34
The equilibrium quantity of sugar decreases, and the equilibrium price increases. Which of the following events would definitely result in these changes in the market for sugar?
- A. A new and more efficient harvesting method is developed for sugar.
- B. A new health report emphasizes the risks of sugar consumption, and at the same time an earthquake occurs that damages many sugar processing facilities.
- C. A producer of artificial sweeteners goes out of business, and at the same time an earthquake occurs that damages many sugar processing facilities.
- D. An earthquake occurs that damages many sugar processing facilities.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 35
In finance, beta is a measure of the systematic risk of a security in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta can be found by running a regression analysis of the monthly returns of the security versus the monthly returns of the general market. The regression output table below shows the relationship between Boeing's monthly returns and the monthly returns of the Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500) which is a stock market index of 500 large companies.
If beta is the average change in Boeing's monthly returns as the monthly returns of the S&P 500 increase by one, what is Boeing's beta?
- A. 0.0100
- B. 1.1400
- C. 0.2708
- D. 0.5204
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 36
On the balance sheet, which of the following options would be included in the Paid-In Capital account?
- A. Cash contributed by owners of the business
- B. Equity investments in other companies
- C. Reserves and accounting provisions
- D. A cumulative amount of previous profits
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 37
A government is considering issuing a fixed number of permits allowing firms to pollute. When would this system fail to reduce pollution?
- A. If the government issued too many pollution permits
- B. During an economic expansion
- C. When the price for a unit of pollution is too high
- D. When the system is applied to all industries
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 38
A group of season ticket holders wants to forecast what the total attendance at National Football League (NFL) games will be next season. A study by the US Census Bureau predicts that the total US population next year will be 310.738 million and the percent change in disposable income per capita will be 1.0%.
Based on the regression output below, which of the following figures is the MOST accurate prediction for total NFL attendance next season?
- A. 4.9 Million
- B. 27.6 Million
- C. 17.1 Million
- D. 13.0 Million
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 39
A company manager commissions a report to study the relationship between sales volume (in thousands of units) and the number of computers in each of the company's offices.
When the manager receives the report, however, the p-value for the independent variable is missing. Based on the rest of the regression output, which of the following numbers is the correct p-value?
- A. 0.0095
- B. 0.0490
- C. 0.6196
- D. 0.0023
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 40
A city concerned about its youth unemployment rate decided to offer a new vocational training program in the hopes of decreasing youth unemployment. Before the program began, the youth unemployment rate was 18%. Four years after the program began, the rate had fallen to 14%.
What is the correct null and alternative hypothesis pair for this situation?
- A. Ho: <18% HA. 18%
- B. Ho: <14% H 14%
- C. Ho: 14% HA. <14%
- D. Ho: 18% HA. <18%
Answer: D
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