Name: Tung Son Nguyen ID: 1418366 (Bold letters below are my answers) FIN 3331 – Risk & Return Assignment 1. You are given the following probability distribution of returns for stock J: A probability of .2 that the return will be 12%; a probability of .35 that the return will be 18%; a probability of .3 that the return will be -10%; and a probability of .15 that the return will be 10%. What is the expected return of this stock? What is the standard deviation rounded to the nearest whole number
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BUS216 Exam #2 Review – Discrete Distributions 1. The number of calls coming into a PBX has a mean of 120 calls per hour. What is the probability of no calls in a one-minute interval? .1353 2. A school is sending 18 children to a camp. If 15% of the children in the school are first graders‚ and the 18 children are selected at random from among all 6 grades at the school‚ find the mean and variance of the number of first graders chosen? The mean is 2.7‚ and the variance is 2.3. n
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Page 1 of 3 ASSIGNMENT 2ND SEMESTER : STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (STAT) STUDY UNITS COVERED DUE DATE TOTAL MARKS : CHAPTERS 1 - 8 : 3.00 p.m. 17 AUGUST 2010 : 100 INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS The complete ‘Instructions to Students for Completing and Submitting Assignments’ must be collected from any IMM GSM office‚ the relevant Student Support Centre or can be downloaded from the IMM GSM website. It is essential that the complete instructions be studied prior
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event. b What is the probability that a randomly chosen applicant‚ i had either work experience or a certificate? ) = = = 0.9 ii has neither work experience nor a certificate? iii has a certificate if he has some previous work experience? = 0.33 2. Because of economic conditions‚ a firm reports that 30 percent if its accounts receivable from other business firms are overdue. If an accountant takes a random sample of 10 such accounts‚ determine the probability that p=30% @ 0.3 n=10
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Sampling Techniques Worksheet For each description of sampling‚ decide if the sampling technique is A. Simple Random B. Stratified C. Cluster D. Systematic E. Convenience 1. In order to estimate the percentage of defects in a recent manufacturing batch‚ a quality control manager at Intel selected every 8th chip that comes off the assembly line starting with the 3rd‚ until she obtains a sample of 140 chips. 2. In order to determine the average IQ of ninth-grade students‚ a school psychologist
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discrepancies. During the discovery phase of the lawsuit‚ when both side submit all of the information they have to each other‚ the insurance company hired an independent CPA firm to calculate the GPF. To determine fraud‚ our group had to find the probability that a standard normal random variable exceeded the GPF samples given to us. We used the entire data set of 3‚005 invoices as the population‚
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the assignment you turn in needs to be your own work. 1. Suppose . That is‚ X has a normal distribution with μ=30 and σ2=144. 1a. Find a transformation of that will give it a mean of zero and a variance of one (ie.‚ standardize ). 1b. Find the probability that . 1c. Supposing 5X‚ find the mean of . 1d. Find the variance of . 2. A bank has been receiving complaints from real estate agents that their customers have been waiting too long for mortgage confirmations. The bank prides itself on its mortgage
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technicians‚ 4 engineers‚ 2 executives‚ and 50 factory workers. If a person is selected at random‚ what is the probability that he or she is a factory worker? A) 1 4 B) 1 8 C) 5 8 D) 2 5 An apartment building has the following distribution of apartments: 1 bedroom 2 bedroom 1st floor 3 1 2nd floor 2 2 3rd floor 1 4 3 bedroom 1 2 1 If an apartment is selected at random‚ what is the probability that it is on the 2nd floor or has 2 bedrooms? A) 7 11 B) 6 11 C) 13 17 D) 11 17 Box A contains
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expected time versus the first three options above. With the 10.38% probability of the project’s ability to be finished in 40 weeks‚ it is highly recommended to allow at least another two weeks to allow the project to be completed with fewer errors. However‚ if it is not feasible to allow this extra time for the expansion the following two clauses below will further define the possibilities available to increase the probability of earlier completion and the additional costs it would take to undergo
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Omkar & Yaying Wednesday 5-6pm WEEK 3 BES PASS Descriptive Statistics Population - a set of all possible observations. Sample - a portion of a population. We often use information concerning a sample to make an inference (conclusion) about the population. Parameter - describes a characteristic of the population‚ eg: the population variance Statistic- describes a characteristic of a sample‚ eg: the sample variance Frequency Distribution and Histograms Class - a collection of
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