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Sherwin-Williams manufactures, distributes, and sells coatings and related products in North America and South America. It operates four segments: paint stores, consumer, automotive finishes, and international coatings. Review the time-series of various rates of return and rates of return components for the Sherwin-Williams Company below. Why does the return on equity increase much more than the return on assets during this time period?    

Number of customers in a store would be an example of which measurement scale?

IQ scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Use this information to answer the following question.   What is the probability that a randomly selected person will have an IQ score of at least 93? Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.54321 then you would type in 0.543.

IQ scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Use this information to answer the following question.   What is the probability that a randomly selected person will have an IQ score of at least 111? Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.54321 then you would type in 0.543.

A math professor was interested in figuring out whether students taking mathematics classes  at his school preferred to take them online or face to face. He decided to randomly survey students taking mathematics classes that semester. He ended up surveying 110 students who were taking math classes that semester, and 42 of them stated that they preferred taking their math classes online while 68 of them preferred taking them face to face.   Construct and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of students at the school that prefer to take math classes face to face.  Make sure to address the following in your response: Check any and all relevant assumptions and state how you determined whether or not they were satisfied (Be as specific as possible) Make sure to type your confidence interval in an interval format with each bound rounded to 3 decimal places  [For example, (0.123, 0.456)] Make sure to include an interpretation in context of the given problem

A survey was taken of students enrolled in STEM classes at Taft College. One of the questions asked which city the students live in, and one of the other questions asked about their major. The results are shown below. Use them to answer the probability question that follows.  Probability Table Bakersfield Taft Shafter Other Math 3 5 2 4 Chemistry 9 4 1 5 Biology 4 13 8 6 Engineering  14 15 2 1 Physics 3 1 0 2   What is the probability that a randomly selected student from this survey doesn’t live in Bakersfield? Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.12345 then you would type in 0.123. 

Using the financial statements provided below, calculate Schlindwein & Company’s unlevered free cash flow for Year 1. [answer] All of the cash flows occur at the end of each year, including capital expenditures and any financing transactions. The company distributes all equity free cash flows to equityholders in the form of dividends; in other words, it does not hold any excess cash. Its income tax rate is 30% on taxable income up to $2,000 and 40% on all additional taxable income. The interest rate the company pays on debt is 8%, and its preferred stock dividend rate is 9% (both based on the company’s book value of debt and preferred stock). The company has no sales or retirements of property, plant, or equipment during the period covered by the financial statements. The cash line represents required cash.

IQ scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Use this information to answer the following question.   What is the probability that a randomly selected person will have an IQ score of at most 105? Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.54321 then you would type in 0.543.

The name of a city where someone is born would be an example of which measurement scale?

A company has expected free cash flows of $100.2 million, $[fcf] million, and $120.8 million in the next three years. Afterward, the free cash flows will grow in perpetuity by 2% annually. Measure the value of this company as of today using a 12% discount rate.