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The price per share of stock for a sample of 25 companies was recorded at the beginning of a given year and then again at the end of the 1st quarter of that year. How stocks perform during the 1st quarter is an indicator of what is ahead for the stock market and the economy. Use the sample data given below to answer the following. Company | End of 1st Quarter | Beginning of Year | Company | End of 1st Quarter | Beginning of Year Company A | 25.13 | 19.91 | Company N | 45.98 | 33.25 Company B | 38.01 | 37.36 | Company O | 68.21 | 66.71 Company C | 53.9 | 45.78 | Company P | 39.23 | 40.12 Company D | 59.42 | 62.03 | Company Q | 70.12 | 62.00 Company E | 65.96 | 65.58 | Company R | 41.27 | 41.56 Company F | 108.48 | 105.94 | Company S | 33.26 | 25.96 Company G | 29.01 | 23.71 | Company T | 74.01 | 69.97 Company H | 11.45 | 10.71 | Company U | 69.06 | 54.70 Company I | 43.41 | 41.22 | Company V | 86.73 | 84.76 Company J | 21.07 | 17.91 | Company W | 21.65 | 21.64 Company K | 30.23 | 30.24 | Company X | 29.16 | 25.58 Company L | 20.15 | 18.08 | Company Y | 107.21 | 106.40 Company M | 49.31 | 42.04 | (a) Let di denote the change in price per share for company i where di = price per share at the end of the 1st quarter of the given year minus price per share at the beginning of that year. Use the sample mean of these values to estimate the dollar amount a share of stock has changed during the 1st quarter. (Round your answer to two decimal places.) $ (b) What is the 95% confidence interval (in dollars) estimate of the population mean change in the price per share of stock during the first quarter? (Use end of first quarter - beginning of year. Round your answers to two decimal places.) $ to $
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The price per share of stock for a sample of 25 companies was recorded at the beginning of the first financial quarter and then again at the end of the first financial quarter. How stocks perform during the first quarter is an indicator of what is ahead for the stock market and the economy. Use the sample data in the file StockQuarter to answer the following. Beginning of 1st Quarter End of 1st Quarter Company Bank of New York Mellon 53.82 54.19 Kraft Foods 77.02 55.70 E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company 109.00 102.57 Consolidated Edison 83.58 79.95 Johnson & Johnson 139.23 126.01 Union Pacific 135.78 132.73 Comcast 41.07 32.06 Applied Materials 53.04 50.91 Pfizer 36.44 35.40 General Electric 17.98 14.05 AT&T 38.54 32.54 Cisco Systems 38.86 44.83 Home Depot 188.03 184.63 JP Morgan Chase 107.95 108.78 Procter & Gamble 90.65 71.96 Verizon 53.53 48.82 Devon Energy 42.23 36.20 Lilly 84.68 79.07 Microsoft 85.95 95.00 Coca Cola 45.59 42.59 Qualcomm 65.20 50.82 Exxon Mobil Corporation 85.03 76.95 PG&E Corporation 44.49 46.27 Oracle Corporation 46.63 45.95 Chevron 127.58 129.86 a. Let denote the percentage change in price per share for company. Use the sample mean of these values to estimate the percentage change in the stock price over the first quarter. Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter negative value as negative number, if any. (to decimals) b. What is the 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean percentage change in the price per share of stock during the first quarter? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter negative values as negative numbers, if any. Confidence interval , (to decimals) Interpret this result. The stock market experiences - Select your answer - an increase a decline in prices.
A financial analyst is examining the relationship between stock prices and earnings per share. She chooses sixteen publicly traded companies at random and records for each the company's current stock price and the company's earnings per share reported for the past 12 months. Her data are given below, with x denoting the earnings per share from the previous year and y denoting the current stock price (both in dollars). A scatter plot of her data is shown in Figure 1. Also given is the product of the earnings per share and the current stock price for each of the sixteen stocks. (These products, written in the column labelled "xy", may aid in calculations.) Earnings per share, x (in dollars) | Current stock price, y (in dollars) | xy 37.01 | 1.60 | 59.216 28.93 | 0.89 | 25.7477 21.13 | 0.47 | 9.9311 16.48 | 0.59 | 9.7232 41.67 | 1.54 | 64.1718 59.58 | 2.74 | 163.2492 26.52 | 0.98 | 25.9896 57.45 | 2.11 | 121.2195 47.55 | 1.63 | 77.5065 53.38 | 2.66 | 141.9908 37.07 | 1.05 | 38.9235 42.12 | 0.94 | 39.5928 28.66 | 1.32 | 37.8312 13.73 | 0.32 | 4.3936 43.09 | 1.77 | 76.2693 31.65 | 1.75 | 55.3875 Figure 1 What is the sample correlation coefficient for these data? Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places and round your answer to at least three decimal places. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.)
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