A civil service exam yields scores which are normally distributed with a mean of 81 and standard deviation of 5.5. If the civil service wishes to set a cut off score on the exam so that 15% of test takers fail the exam, what should the cut off score be? Remember round your Z-value 2 decimal places.

A calendar year corporation and band recently sold tickets ($20,000,000) for concerts scheduled for next year and the following year. For financial statement purposes, the band will recognize the income from the tickets when it performs the concerts. For tax purposes, it uses the accrual method and would prefer to defer the income from the ticket sales until it performs the concerts. This is the […]

A cable television company would like to estimate the proportion of its customers who would purchase a cable television program guide. The company would like to have 95% confidence that its estimate is correct to within +/- .05 of the true proportion. Past experience in other areas indicates that 30% of the customers will purchase the program guide. What sample size is needed?

Q1.A bullish call spread is bullish on direction. Is it also bullish on volatility? Let’s assume the payoff diagram with exercise price is $95 and $100 for a call bull spread. Explain your answer.Q2.Assume KBC stock is currently at S = $100. After one period, the price will move to one of the following two values: [uS and dS], where [u = 1.2; d = […]

Parkinson’s disease paper.Looking for guidance on how to start writing about the following subheading for a paper. Summary on the following will help me jump start to writing a full paper.History: A brief tracing of the history of our identification and knowledge of the disorder (a paragraph or two).Epigenetic Causes: A detailed explanation of the epigenetic (genetic and environmental) etiology (cause) of the chosen topic […]

Suppose that a manufacturer of optical fiber is interested in determining if the average strength of a fiber is more than 800kpsi. Explain what a Type II error would mean.A bone marrow test is used to diagnose leukemia. A doctor looks at the sample taken from the bone marrow and determines if the person has leukemia. Suppose that the null hypothesis is that there is […]

A 5.00-mL sample of blood was treated with trichloroacetic acid to precipitate proteins. After centrifugation, the resulting solution was brought to a pH of 3 and was extracted with two 5-mL portions of methyl isobutyl ketone containing the organic lead complexing agent APCD. The extract was aspirated directly into an air-acetylene flame yielding an absorbance of 0.444 at 283.3 nm. Five-milliliter aliquots of standard solutions […]

2-9A LO 3, 4. The following time card shows the time worked one week by Ken Pace. The employer disregards any time before 8:00 A.M. or between 12:00 and 1:00 P.M. and after 5:00 P.M. Employees do not begin work until 8:00 A.M. or 1:00 P.M., and do not work beyond 5:00 P.M., unless they are asked to work overtime. Hours worked beyond the regular […]

3101AFE: WORKSHOP 8 – Semester 1 2016Topic 12: Accounting for Financial instrumentsSTUDENTS PLEASE NOTE: For Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 students are NOT expected to write100 words.QUESTION 1: Question 1 from Deegan Topic 12: Define financial instrument.QUESTION 2: Question 2 from Deegan Topic 12: What is a primary financial instrument?Provide some examples.QUESTION 3: Question 3 from Deegan Topic 12: What is a derivative […]

___________ have no obvious relationship to levels of output activity, but are determined as part of the periodic planning process.A) Engineered costsB) Discretionary fixed costsC) Capacity costsD) Committed fixed costs