An investor wants to invest his money in a fund which has maintained a steady value. a fund manager claims that one of his bond funds has maintained an average price of $19.00 with a variance of 0.2. in order to find out if the fund manager's claim is true, the investor samples the prices from 22 random days and finds a standard deviation of 0.0947 in the price. can the investor conclude that the variance of the share price of the bond fund is different than claimed at α=0.1? assume the population is normally distributed. step 2 of 5: determine the critical value(s) of the test statistic. if the test is two-tailed, separate the values with a comma. round your answer to three decimal places.

Suppose a ceiling fan manufacturer has the total cost function c(x) = 48x + 1485 and the total revenue function r(x) = 75x. (a) what is the equation of the profit function p(x) for this commodity? p(x) = (b) what is the profit on 35 units? p(35) = interpret your result. the total costs are less than the revenue. the total costs are more than the revenue. the total costs are exactly the same as the revenue. (c) how many fans must be sold to avoid losing money? fans

What two things do you consider when evaluating the time value of money

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.