2. An engineering student invested $1,000 in the stock market. For the first 4 years the average return was 8% annually, and it then averaged 12% for an additional 4 years. If no additional contributions were made, how much is in the account after 8 years?

Go to this website (http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/) for the Purchasing Power Calculator at measuringWorth.com. How much money would it take today to purchase what one dollar would have bought in the year of your birth?

Plot the logarithm of arrivals for each transportation mode against time, all on the same graph. Which now appears to be growing the fastest?

Compute the inflation rate for fruit prices from 2001 to 2004.

What is a dividend?

Exercise A3 What dome slices of a pie chart represent?

What is a capital gain?

With in 1 or 2 percentage points, what has the U.S. inflation rate been during the last 20 years? Draw a graph to show the data.

If a government gains from unexpected inflation when it borrows, why would it choose to offer indexed bands?

Metropolitan Hospital has estimated its average monthly bed needs as N=1,000+9X where X=timeperiod(months);January2002=0 N=monthlybedneeds Assume that no new hospital additions are expected in the area in the foreseeable future. The following monthly seasonal adjustment factors have been estimated, using data from the past five years: Forecast Metropolitans bed demand for January, April, July, November, and December 2007. If the following actual and forecast values for June bed demands have been recorded, what seasonal adjustment factor would you recommend be used in making future June forecasts?