Explain how a financial products broker might segment customers and potential customers. Which segments would be the most attractive to them, and why? (Explain different marketing methods and approaches to promoting or selling financial products and services).

Most companies have both transactional and relational customers. How should companies treat transactional customers?

Khaleesi Corporation (“Khaleesi”) leases dragonglass weapons to customers. She gains a loyal following of customers because dragonglass is of limited supply but high demand due to its usefulness for the upcoming winter. Further, Khaleesi tends to offer more favorable financing terms than competitors offering substitutive products (e.g., Lannister, LLC).

Khaleesi was recently approached by the Lords of the North, Inc. (“the North”) which is interested in leasing a substantial stock of weapons over a potentially lengthy period of time. The North has indicated a willingness to pay any rate that Khaleesi Corporation demands for its dragonglass products, but generally receives an interest rate of 12% on all other borrowing transactions. The North’s management are a very noble group, so payments are reasonably assured. Further, there are no material cost uncertainties.

Khaleesi has gathered its council to discuss entering into such a contract with the North and has invited you to provide financial council. Khaleesi’s board has proposed several alternative sets of lease terms (below) and would like you determine what the North’s annual payments will be under each scenario, if payments are made at the beginning of the period.

Prepare a lease amortization schedule describing the pattern of payments and interest over the lease term for both Khaleesi and the North.

1. You want to see if students from different types of schools are equally (or unequally) happy. You randomly sample groups of 10 students from three different sizes of school and have them fill out a standardized scale measuring satisfaction with their education. This scale has a potential range from 0-50 (larger scores = greater satisfaction).

       ΣX =191      Σrank = 99    ΣX = 239      Σrank = 174.5    ΣX = 269    Σrank = 191.5

       ΣX² = 3805                           ΣX² = 6033                               ΣX² = 7763

        SS = 156.9                          SS = 320.9                                 SS = 526.9          

You have conducted an experiment to see if the type of chairs placed in a lecture hall affect attendance. You divide your lecture rooms into 3 groups and put one type of chair in each room. You then record the average number students absent each day for an entire term.

Source             SS        df         MS      F                                                                 Type of Chair

Between          520      2          260      6.34                                                      plastic        cloth   leather

Within             492      12        41                       Mean # of students/lecture       42             28           32

Total                1012    14

b) After collecting the data you are curious to see if plastic and leather groups differ. If you want to use a powerful test, what do you find?    

(15.28) Almost all medical schools in the United States require students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). To estimate the mean score μ of those who took the MCAT on your campus, you will obtain the scores of an SRS of students. The scores follow a Normal distribution, and from published information you know that the standard deviation is 6.5. Suppose that (unknown to you) the mean score of those taking the MCAT on your campus is 24. In answering the following, use z-scores rounded to two decimal places. If you choose one student at random, what is the probability (±0.0001) that the student's score is between 20 and 30? You sample 27 students. What is the standard deviation (±0.01) of sampling distribution of their average score x¯¯¯? What is the probability (±0.0001) that the mean score of your sample is between 20 and 30?

1. Consider two stocks, Stock D, with an expected return of 13 percent and a standard deviation of 33 percent, and Stock I, an international company, with an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. The correlation between the two stocks is 0.2. What is the weight of stock D in the minimum variance portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)

2. Consider two stocks, Stock D, with an expected return of 13 percent and a standard deviation of 27 percent, and Stock I, an international company, with an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 44 percent. The correlation between the two stocks is -0.6. What is the weight of stock D in the minimum variance portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)

A travel website would like to estimate the difference between the average rental price of a car with automatic transmission versus the average rental price of a car with manual transmission at a certain airport. The table below shows the average​ one-week rental prices for two random​ samples, as well as the population standard deviations and sample sizes for each type of car. Complete parts a and b.

a. Construct a

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confidence interval to estimate the difference in the average cost of a​ one-week rental between these two types of cars at the airport.

Let the cars with automatic transmissions be population 1 and the cars with manual transmissions be population 2.

The confidence interval is

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​(Round to the nearest cent as​ needed.)

A) Emma invested $32,000 into National Oilwell three years ago. National Oilwell value increased by -6.7% in 2017, -5.7% in 2018 and 7.9% in 2019. what has been the geometric average rate of return in the past three years?

B) Ryan invested $24,000 into Berkshire Hathaway three years ago. Berkshire hataways value increased by -8.3% in 2017, 5.8% in 2018, and 7.6% in 2019. what is the difference in points, between his arithmetic and geometric average annual returns?

C) Ryan invested $18,000 into cerner three years ago. corners value increased by -7.3% in 2017, 10.3% in 2018, and -5.8% in 2019. what is the difference in basis points, between her arithmetic and geometric average annual rate of returns?