Assume the following sales data for a company:

If 2017 is the base year, what is the percentage increase in sales from 2017 to 2018?

Company projects the following sales for the first three months of the​ year: $14300 in January​;$ 10100, in February​;and $10,400 in March.

The company expects 60​% of the sales to be cash and the remainder on account. Sales on account are collected in the month of the sale and​ 50% in the following month. The Accounts Receivable account has a zero balance on January 1. Round to the nearest dollar.

Calculate how many barrels of oil to refine, for the 15th year, into gasoline. Use the following data and create a forecast model that will enable you to solve the problem, and then solve.

Given:

Period: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Demand: 1500, 2100, 1900, 2250, 2200, 3000, 2675, 3327, 3619, 3550

Given the following income data from a representative sample of a population in a certain year, what is its Gini index?

Of all freshman at a large college, 16% made the dean’s list in the current year. As part of a class project, students randomly sample 40 students and check if those students made the list. They repeat this 1000 times and build a distribution of sample proportions.

1. What is this distribution called?

2. Would you expect the shape of this distribution to be symmetric, right skewed, or left skewed? Explain your reasoning.

3 Find/calculate a measure of the variability of this distribution. 4. What is the formal name of the value that you computed in (c)?

5. Use the information above to construct a 95% confidence interval and interpret it using a full sentence.

6. What is the margin of error in your confidence interval? (Be sure to show a calculation to support your response.)

7. Suppose the students decide to sample again, this time collecting 90 students per sample. They build a new distribution of sample proportions. How will the variability of the new distribution compare to the variability of the distribution when each sample contained 40 observations.

- A stock expects to pay a year-end dividend of $2.50 a share (i.e., D₁ = $2.50); assume that last year’s dividend has already been paid). The dividend is expected to decline 5 percent a year, forever (i.e., g = -5%). The company’s expected and required rate of return is 12 percent. What is the current market price per share of this stock?

- The expected rate of return on the common stock of Northwest Corporation is 10 percent. The stock’s dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 6 percent a year. The stock currently sells for $55 a share. What is the next expected dividend per share (i.e., D₁) on this stock?

-  A share of preferred stock pays a quarterly dividend of $1.50. If the price of this preferred stock is currently $40, what is the nominal annual rate of return?

- Harper Manufacturing has realized the following annual sales dollar amounts:

                                             2016:                                                   $12,500,000

                                    2017:                                                   $16,000,000

                                    2018:                                                   $18,000,000

               Calculate the arithmetic average annual growth rate in sales dollars that Harper Manufacturing realized during the 2016 through 2018 time-frame.

"What is the coupon rate of a 10-year, $1000 bond with coupons paid semiannually and a price of $700, if it has a yield to maturity of 10%? Note: Express your answers in strictly numerical terms. For example, if the answer is 5%, write enter 0.05 as an answer."

Last year, 46% of business owners gave a holiday gift to their employees. A survey of business owners indicated that 45% plan to provide a holiday gift to their employees. Suppose the survey results are based on a sample of 60 business owners.