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Kwame, a star basketball player is looking to join a new NBA team.  The Bulls are offering him  $24 million for one year.  The Heat is offering him $10 million this year and $8.0 million in each of  the next two years*.  The market interest rate is 5 percent.   a) What is the present value of the offer from the Heat in millions (rounded to the nearest one hundred thousand dollars? Show your work (5) b) If you were Kwame,  which offer would you take?** (5) c)  Suppose the market interest was now 9 %,  would that change Kwame’s  decision? Why or why not? (5) *this is still for one year of play ** you can assume that Kwame is indifferent between the two teams.  The only thing that matters is his salary.

In a multivariate time series (MVTS), weak stationarity requires certain properties to remain constant over time. Which of the following properties must be time-invariant according to the formal definition of weak stationarity for an MVTS? Note: Select all properties that are explicitly required by the definition of weak stationarity to not depend on time .

Consider the AR(1) process  

Which of the following is a “suprasegmental” property (a property above the level of individual sounds)?

Which vowel is known as “schwa” [ə] and is only found in unstressed syllables in English?

A “glottal stop” [ʔ] (like the sound in the middle of “uh-oh”) is produced by:

If you are describing a vowel as “high, back, and rounded,” which English word contains this vowel?

Consider the “th” in the word “thin” versus the “th” in “then.” What is the primary phonetic difference between these two sounds?

If you are transcribing the word “baked,” which final consonant symbol should you use?