A major cab company in Chicago has computed its mean fare from O'Hare Airport to the Drake Hotel to be $25.89, with a standard deviation of $3.10. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the company's fares from O'Hare Airport to the Drake Hotel.

(a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least ?56%75%84%89% of the fares lie between 19.69 dollars and 32.09 dollars.

(b) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least 8/9 (about 89%) of the fares lie between dollars and dollars. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

(c) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately 68% of the fares lie between dollars and dollars.

(d) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately ?68%75%95%99.7% of the fares lie between 19.69 dollars and 32.09 dollars.

1. A currency swap specifies the exchange of currencies at periodic intervals and may allow the MNC to have cash outflows in the same currency in which it receives most or all of its revenue.

In a comparison of two alternative loans with different debt denominations for the foreign subsidiary we see the following: The Global Hotel Company’s Belizean subsidiary obtains a BZ$40 million loan at an annualized interest rate of 5.5% or arranges a loan of US$20 million with a 4% interest rate.

Calculate the amount repaid in both Belizean dollars and US dollars in interest and principal and determine which is a better borrowing plan for the Global Hotel Belizean subsidiary.

As a young entrepreneur, you are planning to open a budget hotel with a start-up capital of RM 350,000. The hotel will have single-bed rooms with an expected rate of RM 90 per room. An average room occupancy rate is about 250 per month. Annual operating expenses for which cover administration, utility and maintenance costs are about RM 80,000. The cash flows will be expected to remain unchanged for the next 10 years. It is expected that the before-tax minimum attractive rate of return (MARR) is 15% per year.

(i) What is the required average room occupancy rate per month to just breakeven?   

(ii) What is the new required average room occupancy rate per month to just breakeven, if the annual operating expenses increase by RM 7,500 each year starting from year 2? Assume other factors remain unchanged.

Discussion: Profitability Analysis

A large, downtown hotel allocated all of its restaurant labor costs on the basis of revenue dollars. This hotel had seven restaurant outlets that were vastly different, including banquet, room service, a bar, a 24-hour restaurant, and a fine dining facility. There are obvious differences in the way labor resources are consumed in these various outlets. However, the most glaring example was in the banquet operation. Since banquets were not regularly scheduled events, the banquet manager hired servers as contract laborers. These costs were not included in the restaurant labor pool. Suggest at least two steps the manager should take to ensure that all labor is factored into the profitability analysis. The textbook discusses level 1, 2 and 3 variances. Suggest the variance analysis that would pinpoint the issue with the budget. Provide specific examples.

A major cab company in Chicago has computed its mean fare from O'Hare Airport to the Drake Hotel to be

$

28.99

, with a standard deviation of

$

3.79

. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the company's fares from O'Hare Airport to the Drake Hotel.

(a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least ?56%75%84%89% of the fares lie between 21.41 dollars and 36.57 dollars.

(b) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least ?56%75%84%89% of the fares lie between 19.515 dollars and 38.465 dollars.

(c) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately ?68%75%95%99.7% of the fares lie between 21.41 dollars and 36.57 dollars.

(d) Suppose that the distribution is bell-shaped. According to the empirical rule, approximately 99.7% of the fares lie between

dollars

and

dollars

.

Listed below are portions of the financial statements for MS Park Inc.  

Complete the following Table for MS Park & provide a brief statement on their short term financial position:

1, 33% of consumers read the ingredients listed on a product's label. For a sample of 265 consumers, what is the probability that between 80 and 103 of them read the ingredients listed on a product's label?

2.

The hotel room rate in New York City is normally distributed with a mean of $294 per night. Assume that the standard deviation is unknown.

If 23% of the New York City hotel room rates are more than $328 per night, what is the variance? (Remember the label.)

3.

The Economic Policy Institute reports that the average entry-level wage for male college graduates is $22.23 per hour and for female college graduates is $18.97 per hour. The standard deviation for male graduates is $3.94 and for female graduates is $3.02. Assume wages are normally distributed.

If 30 female graduates are chosen, find the probability the sample average entry-level wage is at least $19.85

4. Julie visits the local park 90 times, and sees her favorite pigeon 38 times. Let p be the probability that Julie sees the pigeon on any given visit, and assume that whether Julie sees the pigeon on some visit is independent of whether she sees the pigeon on any other visit.

(a) Construct a 90% two-sided confidence interval for p.

(b) Julie believes that there is a 50% chance that she sees the pigeon when she visits the park. Is your interval in part (a) consistent with that belief? Explain your answer.

(c) Test Julie’s claim from part (b) with a hypothesis test. Use a significance level of α = 0.05. Perform the test by comparing a test statistic to a critical value found in the tables in the back of your textbook.

(d) Perform the test in part (c) using a p-value.

1. UVW began construction of a new office building on March 1, Y1. On the day construction began, UVW borrowed $240,000 at 7% and immediately spent it on the project. An additional payment of $60,000 was also made on the day construction began. Additional expenditures of $75,000 were made on May 1 and August 31. Construction was complete and the building was placed in service on December 31, Y1. In addition to the $240,000 borrowed to finance the project, UVW also has $2,000,000 of other debt at 5% outstanding for the entire year.

   What is the balance in the building account on the December 31, Y1 balance sheet?

   		230,250
   		8,750
   		345,250
   		20,250
   		21,050
   		None of the other answer choices is correct.
   		470,250
   		471,050
   		564,000
   		450,000

In a study to estimate the proportion of residents in a certain city and its suburbs who favor the construction of a nuclear power plant, it is found that 210 of 300 urban residents favor the construction while only 180 of 200 suburban residents are in favor.

(a) Is there a significant difference between the proportion of urban and suburban residents who favor construction of the nuclear power plant? α=0.05.

(b) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference of favor proportions between urban residents and suburban residents.

(c) By using the confidence interval from (b) test if there is a significant difference between the proportion of urban and suburban residents who favor construction of the nuclear power plant. (You need to explain how you make the conclusion)