A university would like to develop a regression model to predict the point differential for games played by its men's basketball team. A point differential is the difference between the final points scored by two competing teams. A positive differential is a win for the university's team and a negative differential is a loss. For a random sample of games, the point differential (y) was calculated, along with the number of assists (x1), rebounds (x2), turnovers (x3) and personal fouls (x4).Complete parts a through f below.

Game   Point_Differential   Assists   Rebounds   Turnovers   Personal_Fouls
1   16   14   38   12   10
2   45   22   46   11   11
3   11   19   45   11   7
4   19   9   34   17   17
5   16   17   36   13   20
6   14   20   36   18   12
7   11   15   26   10   10
8   5   13   28   12   18
9   -3   6   33   12   23
10   -5   14   30   12   15
11   -10   4   22   8   21
12   23   16   39   8   22
13   6   12   38   13   17
14   19   14   39   13   26
15   -10   12   24   9   19
16   38   19   44   10   19
17   2   13   31   7   17
18   8   10   34   21   33
19   10   10   34   20   20
20   -13   11   26   17   38
21   -9   9   26   9   30
22   -2   16   32   15   24

a) Construct a regression model using all four independent

variables.

y= _ + (_)x1 + (_)x2 + (_)x3 + (_)x4

b) Test the significance of each independent variable using a=.05

Identify the general form of the null and alternative hypotheses, where βj is the population regression coefficient for the jth independent variable.

H₀: B_{j =}

H₁:Bj=

c) Interpret the p-value for the coefficient of each independent variable. Find the p-value for the coefficient of each independent variable.

d) Construct a 95​% confidence interval for the regression coefficients for the Personal Fouls independent variable and interpret the meaning. A 95% confidence interval for the coefficient of the Personal Fouls independent variable is ___ to ___ The Data

Merger Valuation with Change in Capital Structure

VolWorld Communications Inc., a large telecommunications company, is evaluating the possible acquisition of Bulldog Cable Company (BCC), a regional cable company. VolWorld's analysts project the following post-merger data for BCC (in thousands of dollars, with a year end of December 31):

If the acquisition is made, it will occur on January 1, 2017. All cash flows shown in the income statements are assumed to occur at the end of the year. BCC currently has a capital structure of 40% debt, which costs 8.50%, but over the next 4 years VolWorld would increase that to 50%, and the target capital structure would be reached by the start of 2021. BCC, if independent, would pay taxes at 25%, but its income would be taxed at 40% if it were consolidated. BCC's current market-determined beta is 1.30. The cost of goods sold is expected to be 45% of sales.

What is the unlevered cost of equity for BCC? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.
%

What are the free cash flows and interest tax shields for the first 5 years? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in thousands. For example, an answer of $1.2 thousand should be entered as 1.2, not 1,200. Round your answers to two decimal places.

What is BCC's horizon value of interest tax shields and unlevered horizon value? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in thousands. For example, an answer of $1.2 thousand should be entered as 1.2, not 1,200. Round your answers to two decimal places.

What is the value of BCC's equity to VolWorld's shareholders if BCC has $300,000 in debt outstanding now? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in thousands. For example, an answer of $1.2 thousand should be entered as 1.2, not 1,200. Round your answer to two decimal places.
$ thousand

A school psychologist is interested in determining if children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) learn better if English literature is read to them rather than having them read the material themselves. A random sample of 10 sixth graders with ADD is selected and divided into two groups of 5 each. One of the groups has a story read to them (Listening Group) and the other reads the story themselves (Reading Group). A quiz on the story is given after each group has finished reading or hearing the story. The following scores were obtained with 20 being a perfect score. Please analyze this data using a two-tailed test at the α = .05 level.

The confidence interval for this study was calculated as .42 to 6.78. What is the appropriate interpretation of the confidence interval?

A technical engineer is interested in understanding the battery life of two different laptops for student usage at a community college in California. The two models he has are Madroid and Krapple. He randomly assigned students to one of the laptop models and recorded the number of minutes the students were able to use the computer until the battery ran out. Below is the data collected.

Does the technical engineer have statistically significant evidence to present to the university budget committee to purchase Krapple because it has, on average, a longer battery life?

Provide the p-value from your analysis.

A technical engineer is interested in understanding the battery life of two different laptops for student usage at a community college in California. The two models he has are Madroid and Krapple. He randomly assigned students to one of the laptop models and recorded the number of minutes the students were able to use the computer until the battery ran out. Below is the data collected.

Does the technical engineer have statistically significant evidence to present to the university budget committee to purchase Krapple because it has, on average, a longer battery life?

Provide the p-value from your analysis

A technical engineer is interested in understanding the battery life of two different laptops for student usage at a community college in California. The two models he has are Madroid and Krapple. He randomly assigned students to one of the laptop models and recorded the number of minutes the students were able to use the computer until the battery ran out. Below is the data collected.

Does the technical engineer have statistically significant evidence to present to the university budget committee to purchase Krapple because it has, on average, a longer battery life?

Provide the p-value from your analysis.

Maurice’s Pump Manufacturing Company currently maintains plants in Atlanta and Tulsa that supply major distribution centers in Los Angeles and New York. Because of an expanding demand, Maurice has decided to open a third plant and has narrowed the choice to one of two cities—New Orleans or Houston. The pertinent production and distribution costs, as well as the plant capacities and distribution center demands, are shown in the following table.

Help the company decide which of the two proposed plant should be opened. Create a spreadsheet model of this situation and solve using Solver. Clearly show the values of the decision variables and the objective.

A monopoly sells good Q in two markets. The demands in these two markets are depicted by the equations, ? = 10 − ? and ? = 18 − 3? . The goods for both markets are supplied from ##$$ the same factory with the marginal cost, $2.

a. (5 points) What is the profit-maximizing price-quantity combination in each market? What is the total profit? Assume a consumer in one market does not have access to the other market, i.e., (s)he can buy the good only in the market (s)he is in.

b. (8 points) Suppose now that the monopoly cannot price discriminate. What is the profit- maximizing price-quantity combination? What is the total profit? Show your answer on a diagram with proper labels. How many units of the good does the monopoly sell in each market?

c. (7 points) Suppose now, for the combined markets in part (b), the monopoly can perfectly price discriminate. What is the profit-maximizing price-quantity combination? What is the total profit?

Project name: Practical1LastFirst

You are being asked to create a program related to tracking players on a ringette team. It is important to create as per the requirements document. The details of the RingettePlayer class are provided in the following class diagram.

Default Values for Attributes

When values are not provided for attributes, the following are the values that should be set for the attributes. Note that these are the only attributes that are to be in the class.

• firstName and lastName default: “Unknown”
• allergies default: “”
  • The default for allergies is an empty string
• jerseyNumber and birthYear: 0

Constructor Details

Create four constructors in the RingettePlayer class based on the following requirements.

• Default no-parameter constructor
  • Create a default no-parameter constructor for the RingettePlayer which sets attributes to their default values.
• RingettePlayer(String, String)   
  • First and last names passed as parameters and set.
  • the jersey number, birthYear and allergies set to their default values
• RingettePlayer(int)
  • jerseyNumber passed as a parameter
  • Other attributes are set to their default values
• RingettePlayer(String, String, String int, int)
  • Values for all attributes are passed in as parameters and used to set object attribute values.

Controller Class Functionality

In the main method create three object based on the following specifications. You can use your own name for the variable name.

• The first object created should be created using the constructor that accepts two Strings to set the first and last name in the instance (example: “Brielle”, “Jones”). The user does not have to be prompted for these values. They are to be set as hard coded values.

• The second object created should be created with the default constructor and the setters used to set her first name (“Marley”), last name (“Stephens”), allergies (“Dust”) and jersey number (9). The user does not have to be prompted for these values. They are to be set as hard coded values.
• The third object should be created using the default constructor. The values for this object are to be obtained from the user by using the getInformation() method. The output below shows an example with user entered data.
  • Note that when the program runs, they would be prompted for the values of this object as the first interaction with the user.

Additional Requirements

• After creating each of these objects in the main method, have the program display their values to the console.

• After showing each of the players above have an additional output which shows the allergies only.