To collect data in an introductory statistics course, recently i gave the studentsa questionnaire. One question asked whether the student was a vegetarian. Of25 students, 0 answered "yes." they were not a random sample, but let us usethese data to illustrate inference for a proportion. (you may wish to refer tosection 1.4.1 on methods of inference.)

At the end of the week, carla receives her paycheck and goes directly to the bank after work to make a deposit into her savings account. the bank keeps the required reserve and then loans out the remaining balance to a qualified borrower named malik as a portion of his small business loan. malik uses the loan to buy a tractor for his construction business and makes small monthly payments to the bank to payback the principal balance plus interest on the loan. the bank profits from a portion of the interest payment received and also passes some of the interest back to carla in the form of an interest payment to her savings account. in this example, the bank is acting

You are head of the schwartz family endowment for the arts. you have decided to fund an arts school in the san francisco bay area in perpetuity. every 5 years, you will give the school $ 1 comma 000 comma 000. the first payment will occur 5 years from today. if the interest rate is 5.9 % per year, what is the present value of your gift?

When you hire an independent contractor you don't have to pay the contractors what