Barb heard a shout of help from outside, where she saw her son Ron pushed up against the garage by Daisy (Ron's old girlfriend) in her pickup truck. Barb yelled for Daisy to stop and she backed away, but then revved up the engine to strike again. She was within inches of Ron when she slammed on her brakes, pushed the gearshift into reverse, and drove away. Daisy is liable to Ron under negligence. False

True

Wanda has graduated from community university (cu) and after nine months has failed to find a job. she graduated with a degree in business, and her college was aacsb accredited. (aacsb accreditation is a specialized accreditation for business schools that evidences a quality program.) in her complaint, she alleges that four years of school and tuition should guarantee a job in the field of study and states that she wants her money back. at no time did cu guarantee job placement, either through express or implied statements. wanda does not disagree with this but still thinks that she was wronged and that it is unfair to graduate and not get a job automatically. cu will be successful in extinguishing wanda's lawsuit if its attorney files a

You and your new australian bride matilda, are applying for a loan and are required to submit a balance sheet with your net worth. you own a 2008 toyota camry that you bought last month for $9,995. the kelly blue book value for this car is $13,995. you owe $8,150 on the car loan for the camry. you pay off your visa credit card every month and have not paid any credit card interest this year. the current visa credit card balance is $3,522, and the next statement is due in 15 days. you have a student loan balance of $6,500. you presently have $425 in your checking account and $1,540 in your savings account. you own 100 shares of ibm stock that you purchased for $85.50 per share. one share of ibm is now selling for $158.42. you own computers and other electronics that you purchased for $4,100 but could probably sell today on e-bay for $1,800. your gross income is $80,000 per year. what is your current net worth? (see wb ch. 2 example 2.3)

1. descriptive statistics quickly describe large amounts of data can predict future stock returns with surprising accuracy statisticians understand non-numeric information, like colors refer mainly to patterns that can be found in data 2. a 15% return on a stock means that 15% of the original purchase price of the stock returns to the seller at the end of the year 15% of the people who purchased the stock will see a return the stock is worth 15% more at the end of the year than at the beginning the stock has lost 15% of its value since it was originally sold 3. a stock purchased on january 1 cost $4.35 per share. the same stock, sold on december 31 of the same year, brought in $4.75 per share. what was the approximate return on this stock? 0.09% 109% 1.09% 9% 4. a stock sells for $6.99 on december 31, providing the seller with a 6% annual return. what was the price of the stock at the beginning of the year? $6.59 $1.16 $7.42 $5.84