6. ​Recently, fixed mortgage rates have been at historical lows due to the housing slowdown. The data table linked below shows the​30-year fixed average mortgage rate for the month of December every year between 1987 and 2010.

Year   Rate_(%)
1987   11.09
1988   11.04
1989   10.17
1990   9.93
1991   8.57
1992   8.3
1993   7.25
1994   9.04
1995   7.21
1996   7.06
1997   7.07
1998   6.84
1999   7.65
2000   7.74
2001   7.07
2002   6.84
2003   6.94
2004   6.79
2005   7.02
2006   6.82
2007   6.63
2008   5.88
2009   5.64
2010   5.4

b. Forecast the average December mortgage rate in 2011 using a trend projection ​(Round to two decimal places as​ needed.)

c. Calculate the MAD for this forecast. ​(Round to two decimal places as​ needed.)

d. Determine the Durbin–Watson statistic (Round to two decimal places as​ needed.)

e. Identify the critical values. ​(Round to two decimal places as​ needed.)

Consider the following Data:

1. Calculate measures of central tendency and spread for coffee and tea.
2. Create Histograms and Box-Plots for both coffee and tea, displaying the number of years in each interval of consumption in L/person.
3. Create scatter plots for Coffee vs. Year and Tea vs. Year and Coffee vs. Tea.  
4. Create and record the lines of best fit for each and the correlation coefficient.

Automotive: The following table presents a portion of the annual returns for Fidelity's Select Automotive Fund (in percent). This mutual fund invests primarily in companies engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, or the sales of automobiles, trucks, specialty vehicles, parts, tires, and related services.

1.State the null and the alternative hypothesis in order to test whether the standard deviation is greater than 35%.

2.What assumption regarding the population is necessary to implement this step?

3. Calculate the value of the test statistics.

4. Find the p-value.

5.At a=0.05, what is your conclusion?

According to the Catholic Church, what is "property?"

1. According to Bryson, what is “boundary work” and who does it?

2. For Americans in general, the most liked genres of music are ____ and the most disliked genres are ____.

3. According to Bryson, which of the following best describes the musical tastes of highly educated, upper middle class Americans?

4. According to Bryson, what characteristic is shared by those people who listen to the genres of music that are least tolerated by the "tolerant" people in her study?

5. Based on Bryson’s findings and what you have learned about social stratification, how might boundary work affect inequality?

Is health a legitimate concern of the Christian church? what has your experience been with health ministry in the church setting? Have you encountered a faith Community Nurse in your experience? How would the Faith Community Nurse role enhance the health of your faith community? How does the Faith Community Nurse role support global and planetary health?

Determine confidence intervals for each of the following:

The academic paper by Martin, McNally, and Kay (2013) asserts that: Select one: Academic research on business start-ups does not help the aspiring entrepreneur. Academic research on business start-ups is useful for the aspiring entrepreneur. Ninety per cent of woman’s clothing stores fail within three years. None of the statements here are asserted by that academic paper.

You are an owner of Carrefour supermarket. You have made feature advertisings for last three years. You want to know the effectiveness of this feature advertising on store traffic(numbers of shoppers) in different week. In data set, you have: average numbers of shoppers, average numbers of feature advertising, and average price each week.

With the tables bellow it was done a REGRESSION model in Excel and you should interpret the results obtained from the equation based on the questions.

Q1. Consider a regression model (Model I) that has feature advertising as a single independent variable with intercept. Estimate your model and interpret your estimation results.

Q2. Update above regression model (Model II) by adding an additional independent variable. average price in order to capture the effect of price promotion activities such as coupon during week. Estimate your model and interpret your estimation results. Do you think which model makes more sense between Model I and Model II? Why?

You have the following information regarding AJH Company:

Sales 25,000 units per year at $45 per unit

Production 30,000 units in 2004

At the beginning of 2004 there was no inventory.

Direct Materials are $12.00 per unit

Direct labor is $10.00 per unit

Variable manufacturing overhead costs are $8.00 per unit

Fixed manufacturing overhead costs are $150,000 per year

Marketing costs are all variable at $3.00 per unit

Administrative costs are all fixed at $75,000 per year

Required:

(a.) Prepare an income statement under absorption costing for 2004

(b.) Prepare an income statement under variable costing for 2004

(c.) Prepare an income statement under throughput costing for 2004.