Investing: Lesser-Known Stocks The following question is based on the following information about the stocks of Whitestone REIT, HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., and SanDisk Corporation.t WSR (WSR Whitestone REIT) HCC (HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc.) SNDK (SanDisk Corporation) Price Dividend Yield ($) (%) X shares shares ✓ shares 16 56 80 7 2 2 You invested total of $10,400 in shares of the three stocks at the given prices, and expected to earn $248 in annual dividends. If you purchased a total of 200 shares, how many shares of each stock did you purchase? WSR 100 HCC 100 SNDK 50

The following table shows a data set containing information for 45 mutual funds that are part of the Morningstar Funds 500 for 2008. . The data set includes the following five variables: Use Excel to answer the following question: a. Prepare a crosstabulation of the data on Fund Type (row variable) and the average annual return over the past 5 years (column variable). Use classes of 0–10, 10–20, 20–30, 30–40, 40–50, and 50–60 for the 5-Year Average Return (%) (Class width is 10). B. Construct frequency distributions for Fund Type and 5-Year Average Return (%) respectively. Based on the frequency distributions of the two variables, which of the following answers is wrong? Group of answer choices Out of the 45 mutual funds, there are 2 funds with 5-year average return of 30 - 40 (%).  Out of the 45 mutual funds, there are 28 funds with 5-year average return of 10 - 20 (%). Out of the 45 mutual funds, there are 28 DE type of funds.  Out of the 45 mutual funds, there are 10…

1. Suppose an electronics store offers an extended warranty on a cell phone that covers screenrepair and camera repair and will cost $9.99 per month. Suppose there is a 14% chance ofneeding a screen repair in the next year and an 11% chance of needing a camera repair.Suppose a screen repair will cost the store $155 and a camera repair will cost the store $79.How much annual profit does the store expect for each warranty purchased? 2. Suppose there is a probability of 4/5 that you will get an A on any given exam. Create atable giving the probability distribution for the number of A’s that you could get if you taketwo exams.

Morning House is a mail-order firm which carries a wide range of rather expensive art objects for homes and offices. It operate problems would be greatly reduced. Since it takes approximately six weeks to receive 90% of the response to a given campaign, an accurate prediction of total sales made as late as the end of the first week of receiving orders would be useful. The first week’s sales and total sales of the last 12 campaigns of the firm are shown below. Can the first week’s sales be used to predict total sales? First week’s Total Campaign Sales Sales 1 32 167 2 20 91 3 114 560 4 66 335 5 18 70 6 125 650 7 83 401 8 65 320 9 94 470 10 5 15 11 39 210 12 50 265 --------------------------------------------