An insurance company wants to estimate the mean score on this exam for students who have enrolled in a special study program. They take a sample of 8 students in this program and determine that their scores are: 2, 5, 8, 8, 7, 6, 5, and 7. This sa..
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Jethro has been promised a payment of $1000, which is to be paid exactly 8 years from now. He is completely certain that the payment will in fact be made. Jethro believes that the appropriate discount rate is 5% per year, and that this will contin..
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a nation's rate in 2003 was 5%. It accumulated capital at a rate of 5% and added to its employment of labor at a rate of 5%. The proportionate increase in real GDP in response to a proportionate increase in capital was 0.2, and the proportionate r..
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Fancy Gadgets, Inc. has developed a new Thing-A-May-Jig at a cost of $2,000,000. Projected profits from the sale of Thing-A-May-Jigs for the next five years are: $300,000, $400,000, $500,000, $600,000, and $250,000. At the end of the fifth year, t..
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A monopolist produces according to the following demand curve: p=200 - 4Q. Assume that the firm faces a constant marginal cost and constant average total cost of 60 per unit produced. A.calculate the optimal output that this monopolist should produ..
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An individual wishes to deposit an amount of money now and $100 every six months so that at the end of five years $1,500 will have been accumulated. With interest at 3.97% per year, compounded monthly, how much should be deposited now?
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an investment cost of $50,000; maintenance costs that start at $5,000 at the end-of-year (EOY) one and increase by $1,000 for each of the next four years, and then remain constant for the following five years; savings of $20,000 per year (EOY 1-10..
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On january 1,2005, a person's saving account was worth $200,000. Every month thereafter, this person makes a cash contribution of $676 to the account. I f the funds is expected to be worth $400,000 on january 1,2010
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Mining is proposed for a wilderness area that provides two benefits: recreation (due to backpacking opportunities) and biodiversity (there are endangered wildlife and plants). The mining is expected to reduce backpacking visits from the current 10,..
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In Milky Way Galaxy, a class of 2,000 students took a course in Astronomy. The 1st exam scores and final exam percentage reached earth, but transmission broke off after only a dozen students' scores were received.
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A student wants to buy a car. The car's sticker price is $24,000. The student cannot afford the dealer's terms - 12% interest for 60 months, because the student only has a $500 monthly disposable income. What is the highest rate the studen..
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What are the marginal abatement cost functions for each of the two areas? Calculate the loss in the two areas due to over-control (for the rural area) and under-control (for the urban area).
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