The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is fast becoming a requirement for serious investment professionals. Although it requires a successful completion of three levels of grueling exams, the designation often results in a promising career with a lucrative salary. A student of finance is curious about the average salary of a CFA charterholder. He takes a random sample of 36 recent charterholders and computes a mean salary of $146,000 with a standard deviation of $23,000. Use this sample information to determine the 99% confidence interval for the average salary of a CFA charterholder. Note: Round your final answers to the nearest whole number.

An analyst found that the average amount of money in bank accounts at his/her bank is $2,000 with a standard deviation of $150.  What would be the variance?

A report about how American college students manage their finances includes data from a survey of college students. Each person in a representative sample of 793 college students was asked if they had one or more credit cards and if so, whether they paid their balance in full each month. There were 500 who paid in full each month. For this sample of 500 students, the sample mean credit card balance was reported to be $825. The sample standard deviation of the credit card balances for these 500 students was not reported, but for purposes of this exercise, suppose that it was $205. Is there convincing evidence that college students who pay their credit card balance in full each month have a mean balance that is lower than $907, the value reported for all college students with credit cards? Carry out a hypothesis test using a significance level of 0.01.   State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses. H0: ? = 907 Ha: ? < 907 H0: ? = 907 Ha: ? > 907      H0: ? < 907…

Barron's has collected data on the top 1,000 financial advisers. Company A and Company B have many of their advisers on this list. A sample of 16 of the Company A advisers and 10 of the Company B advisers showed that the advisers managed many very large accounts with a large variance in the total amount of funds managed. The standard deviation of the amount managed by the Company A advisers was  s1 = $583 million.  The standard deviation of the amount managed by the Company B advisers was  s2 = $488 million.  Conduct a hypothesis test at  ? = 0.10  to determine if there is a significant difference in the population variances for the amounts managed by the two companies. What is your conclusion about the variability in the amount of funds managed by advisers from the two firms? State the null and alternative hypotheses. H0: ?12 ≠ ?22 Ha: ?12 = ?22 H0: ?12 ≤ ?22 Ha: ?12 > ?22      H0: ?12 = ?22 Ha: ?12 ≠ ?22 H0: ?12 > ?22 Ha: ?12 ≤ ?22 Find the value of the test statistic.…

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is fast becoming a requirement for serious investment professionals. It is an attractive alternative to getting an MBA for students wanting a career in investment. A student of finance is curious to know if a CFA designation is a more lucrative option than an MBA. He collects data on 38 recent CFAs with a mean salary of $138,000 and a standard deviation of $34,000. A sample of 80 MBAs results in a mean salary of $130,000 with a standard deviation of $46,000.a) Specify the hypotheses to test whether a CFA designation is more lucrative than an MBA.b) Calculate the value of the test statistic and the p-value. Do not assume that the population variances are equal.c) At the 5% significance level, is a CFA designation more lucrative than an MBA?

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is fast becoming a requirement for serious investment professionals. It is an attractive alternative to getting an MBA for students wanting a career in investment. A student of finance is curious to know if a CFA designation is a more lucrative option than an MBA. He collects data on 36 recent CFAS with a mean salary of $145,000 and a standard deviation of $36,000. A sample of 47 MBAS results in a mean salary of $135,000 with a standard deviation of $24,000. Assume that H, is the population mean for individuals with a CFA designation and u, is the population mean of individuals with MBAS. (You may find it useful to reference the appropriate table: z table or t table) a. Set up the hypotheses to test if a CFA designation is more lucrative than an MBA at the 10% significance level. O Họ: 41- H2 = 0; HA: H1 - H2# 0 O Ho: 1-4220; HA H1 - 4200 b-1. Calculate the value of the test statistic. Do not assume that the population variances are…

You are the Director of Ticket Sales for the Kansas City Royals.  Over the past 10 years, average attendance has dipped, thus the ownership group is considering improvements to the stadium to attract younger fans.  From the period since Kauffman Stadium opened (April 1973) through October 2012, the average game attendance was 22,655.  For the 2019 season—82 home games—the average attendance was 22,402 with a sample standard deviation of 899.  Before the ownership group commits to $275M in stadium upgrades, they ask you for statistical evidence that attendance has decreased.      Why is a hypothesis test a better statistical approach than a confidence interval to base your response to the ownership group?  Is the appropriate hypothesis test a left, right, or two-tailed test?  State the null and alternative hypotheses for the appropriate test.  You choose to conduct the test at the .01 level of significance (having an associated critical value of +/- 2.37) and determine the test…

A college in the northeastern United States used SAT scores to help decide which applicants to admit. To determine whether the SAT was useful in predicting success, the college examined the relationship between the SAT scores and first-year GPAs of admitted students. The average math SAT score of a sample of 200 randomly selected students was 649.5 with a standard deviation of 66.2. The average GPA of the same students was 2.63 with a standard deviation of 0.58. The correlation between GPA and math SAT score was 0.19. (a) What does the correlation of 0.19 tell us about SAT scores and GPA scores? (You need to provide two answers.)(b) Find the equation of the least squares regression line.(c) Using the equation, predict the GPA score of a person with a math SAT score of 650.(d) Using the equation, predict the GPA score for a person with a math score of 800.

Risk taking is an important part of investing. In order to make suitable investment decisions on behalf of their customers, portfolio managers give a questionnaire to new customers to measure their desire to take financial risks. The scores on the questionnaire are approximately normally distributed with a mean of  49  and a standard deviation of  16 . The customers with scores in the bottom  15%  are described as "risk averse." What is the questionnaire score that separates customers who are considered risk averse from those who are not? Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places. Round your answer to one decimal place.