Five years ago the average university student owed $19,000 in student-loan debt at the time of graduation. With all the cuts in funding, it is suspected that this amount has gone up. A survey of 45 recent university graduates revealed an average student-loan debt of $20,000. Assume that the population standard deviation is $2,500.
a) Define the parameter of interest (in words), and then formulate the null hypothesis and the alternative hypotheses.
b) Find the p-value and make a conclusion in the context of the question. Use a level of significance of 5% (i.e. α = 0.05).
In: Statistics and Probability
In: Accounting
In: Accounting
PQR Ltd is a US-based retailer and it uses LIFO method for valuation of inventory. Following information is obtained from its inventory records for 2019:
Inventory | Units | Unit price $ |
Opening balance | 5000 | 10 |
January purchases | 5000 | 12 |
April purchases | 5000 | 14 |
June purchases | 5000 | 16 |
Sold during 2019 | 19000 |
You are require to answer the following (no calculations are necessary):
In light of US-GAAP, what are your key observations regarding cost of inventory balance and units sold?
What are the potential consequences of current inventory management on profitability and availability of inventory?
In: Finance
Below are the jersey numbers of 11 players randomly selected from a football team. Find the range, variance, and standard deviation for the given sample data. What do the results tell us?
58 59 66 57 3 6 42 25 219 56
Range = 64 (Round to one decimal place as needed.)
Sample standard deviation = (Round to one decimal place as needed.)
Sample variance = (Round to one decimal place as needed.)
What do the results tell us?
A. Jersey numbers are nominal data that are just replacements for names, so the resulting statistics are meaningless.
In: Statistics and Probability
LIN Ltd is a US-based retailer and it uses LIFO method for valuation of inventory. Following information is obtained from its inventory records for 2019:
| Inventory | Units | Unit price $ |
| Opening balance | 5000 | 10 |
|
January purchases |
5000 | 12 |
|
April purchases |
5000 | 14 |
| June purchases | 5000 | 16 |
| Sold during 2019 | 19000 |
You are require to answer the following (no calculations are necessary):
a) In light of US-GAAP, what are your key observations regarding cost of inventory balance and units sold?
b) What are the potential consequences of current inventory management on profitability and availability of inventory?
In: Accounting
Theory tells us that the real interest rate equals the marginal
product
of capital less the depreciation rate. Theory also tells us that
the marginal
product of capital decreases when the capital-labor ratio
increases. We know
from observation that the capital-labor ratio has been rising
steadily for over a
century, but that the real interest rate and the depreciation rate
have remained
relatively constant. How can all of these statements be correct?
Explain.
Hint: One possible answer uses technological change in an important
way.
Graphing the production function for different technology levels
may be helpful.
In: Economics
In: Physics
Given the following information
n= 5 Σ Xt = 30 Σ Yt = 172 Σ Yt Xt = 980
Σ X2t = 205 Σ Y2t = 5162
Find the least squares estimates of α and β from
Yt = α + βXt + ut
The sum of squared residuals is 45.2691. What does the SSR tell us in general?
Find the unbiased estimate of the variance of ut. What does S2 tell us in general?
Test H0: β = 0 against H1: β > 0 at the 5% level of significance.
Calculate the 95% confidence interval for β.
Calculate the R2.
In: Statistics and Probability
At a retail selling price of $2.5, Pepsi will be able to cover 15% of the approximately 1 billion units (20 oz. bottles) premium water market in US. If retailers charge a margin of 20% and if Pepsi’s unit variable cost in making and selling a bottle of LIFEWATR is $1, and Pepsi will incur a total fixed cost (in manufacturing, advertising, branding etc.) of $75 million, what is the profit that it can expect from the product? At $2, Pepsi will cover 20% of the premium water market in US. Do you think they should price the product at $2? Assume that there are no whole sellers between Pepsi and its retailers.
In: Finance