You’ve observed the following returns on Crash-n-Burn Computer’s stock over the past five years: 16 percent, –5 percent, 19 percent, 13 percent, and 10 percent. a. What was the arithmetic average return on the company’s stock over this five-year period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e. g., 32.1.) b-1. What was the variance of the company’s returns over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 5 decimal places, e. g., .16161.) b-2. What was the standard deviation of the company’s returns over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

Consider 8.5 percent swiss franc/u.s. dollar dual-currency bonds that pay $666.67 at maturity per sf1,000 of par value. it sells at par. what is the implicit sf/$ exchange rate at maturity? will the investor be better or worse off at maturity if the actual sf/$ exchange rate is sf1.35/$1.00

One pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be: