From the end of 2014 until the end of 2016, the S&P/TSX Composite Index rose from 8934 to 12,434. If you had invested $50,000 in a portfolio of the shares of the companies in the Index at the end of 2014, what would the value of those shares have been at the end of 2016? (This calculation considers only the price appreciation of the original shares. It does not include the portion of the growth in the portfolio's value resulting from the receipt and reinvestment of dividends.)

An example of interval data would be ________.

A) classifying customers by geographical region
B) rating a movie as bad,good,or excellent
C) ranking potential employees by SAT scores
D) comparing retail stores by number of units sold

Two payments of $1,300 and $1,800 were scheduled to be paid five months ago and three months from now, respectively. The $1,300 payment has not yet been made. What single payment at a focal date one month from now would be equivalent to the two scheduled payments if money can earn 4.5 %?

Evaluate the function as indicated. Round your answer to three decimal places. $\begin{array}{rl}g(x)& =100e^{-0.5x}\\ x& =8\end{array}$

A) -1087.313
B) 1.832
C) 5459.815
D) 1.593
E) -485.225

A manufacturing firm pays monthly salaries of $3,400 to each production worker and $2,800 to each assembly worker. As the economy drops into a recession, the firm decides to reduce its total monthly manufacturing payroll from $253,800 to $198,000 by laying off 20% of its production workers and 25% of its assembly workers. How many layoffs will there be from each of the assembly and production divisions?

The MOST commonly used strategy to decrease type I error is to ______.

A) make alpha bigger
B) collect more data
C) always reject the null hypothesis
D) make it harder to reject the null hypothesis

Solve each of the following problems for the percentage.
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a.0.4% of 1520 = ______
b.6% of 20 = ______
c.7.5% of $36 = ______

Solve $h^2=100$ by the Square Root Property, if possible.

A) $h=10,h=-10$
B) h=20
C) h=10
D) $h=0,h=10$
E) no solutions

Identify the property of real numbers illustrated by $17-17=0$ .

A) Distributive Property
B) Additive Inverse Property
C) Commutative Property of Addition
D) Associative Property of Addition
E) Additive Identity Property