Weights, standard deviation, and average returns for 50 stocks and a market index are known. The covariance matrix and correlation is also known. We need to "Pick 5 assets and explain the reason why you choose them". On what basis (Eg. The ones with the highest returns, low standard deviation, etc.)  should we pick our stocks?

Unlike a roller coaster, the seats in a Ferris wheel swivel so that the rider is always seated upright. An 80-ft-diameter Ferris wheel rotates once every 24 s.

What is the apparent weight of a 60 kg passenger at the lowest point of the circle?

What is the apparent weight of a 60 kg passenger at the highest point of the circle?

Define perimenopause, surgical menopause, stress menopause, and postmenopause.

What are the signs of menopause?

What other life changes may influence a women's experience during menopause?

Describe women at the highest risk for osteoporosis.

Describe the traditional and alternative therapies for the conditions associated with menopause.

Design a health, nutrition, and exercise program for middle-aged and older adults.

In python write a program that gets a list of integers from input, and outputs non-negative integers in ascending order (lowest to highest). Ex: If the input is: 10 -7 4 39 -6 12 2 the output is: 2 4 10 12 39 For coding simplicity, follow every output value by a space. Do not end with newline

Describe at least two objections to the idea of an all volunteer military. Do you think a conscription based or volunteer military is best from a moral standpoint and why? What are some of the key moral questions involved in the issue of paid pregancies? Do you think surrogates should be able to offer their services to the highest bidder? Why or why not?

Create a query using query design. from the Clients table, display the client first name and last name. From the Accounts Table, select the savings balance. Add appropriate grouping so the clients total retirement account savings balances are displayed. Add a sort so the highest total savings balances are displayed first.

1. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average annual expenditure on food and drink for all families is $5,700 (Money, December 2003). Assume that annual expenditure on food and drink is normally distributed and that the standard deviation is $1,500. (50 points) (A) What is the range of expenditures of the 24.2% of families with the lowest annual spending on food and drink? (B) Assume total number of families is 500,000. How many families spend more than $7000 annually on food and drink? 2. The average base salary for a store manager (Wal-Mart) in Riverside, California, is $68,000, and the average base salary for a store manager (Wal-Mart) in Los Angeles, California, is $78,000. Assume that salaries are normally distributed, the standard deviation for store managers in Riverside is $20,000, and the standard deviation for store managers in Los Angles is $22,000. (75 points) (A) What is the probability that a store manager in Riverside has a base salary in excess of $100,000? (B) What is the probability that a store manager in Los Angeles has a base salary in excess of $100,000? (C) What is the probability that a store manager in Los Angeles has a base salary of less than $67,000? (D) How much would a store manager in Los Angeles have to make in order to have a higher salary than 98.21% of the store managers in Riverside? (E) Based the results from (A)-(D), if you are a job applicant for store manager position (Wal-Mart) in California, how would you negotiate annual salary using at least 200 words.

3. Suppose a whole-life policy from the insurance company has a 55% chance of lapsing in its first year.

1. Describe the sample space for the variable L if L denotes the single event of the policy lapsing (0.5 point)

2. What type of distribution would this be? (0.5 point)____________________________________

3. Assign probabilities to each value of L (0.5 point)

4. Calculate the expected value and the variance of L (0.5 point)

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1. An insurance company is concerned about the persistency (length of time a policy remains in-force and doesn’t lapse) of its whole-life policies. Suppose the persistency of the company’s whole-life policies is normally distributed with a mean of 13 years and a standard deviation of 4 years.

1. What is the probability that the persistency of a whole-life policy will be less than 10 years? (1 point)

2. If the insurance company wants no more than 5% of its whole-life policies to have a persistency of less than 8 years, what does its mean persistency need to be? (Assume the same standard deviation) (1 point)

2. Jenni is an insurance agent for the company listed in question 1. The number of whole-life policies she has written (sold) that lapse is Poisson distributed with a mean of 12 policies per year.

1. What is the probability only 9 of Jenni’s whole-life policies will lapse in a given year? (1 point)

2. What is the probability 16 of Jenni’s whole-life policies will lapse in a given year? (1 point)