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Consider the three stocks in the following table.    Stock P at t=0 Qty of shrs at t=0 P at t=1 Qty of shrs at t=1 A 8 100 5 100 B 44 2500 50 2500 C 120 200 65 400 a. Calculate the rate of return for a price-weighted index made up of A, B, and C. (5 points) b. Calculate the rate of return for a value-weighted index made up of A, B, and C. (5 points) c. Calculate the rate of return for an equal-weighted index made up of A, B, and C. (5 points) c. Why are the measures of returns from a), b), and c) different? (3 points)

Treasury bills have a face value of $10,000. Suppose the ask rate to purchase a T-bill (quoted on a bank discount basis) is 7.51%. The T-bill has 156 days to maturity. a. What is the dollar price to purchase the T-bill? (3 points) b. Assuming you hold this bill until maturity and receive the $10,000, what is the bond equivalentyield? (3 points) c. What is the effective annual yield of this investment? (3 points)   d.  Why is the BEY different than the AEY and why are both of those different than the bank discount return? (3 points)

Suppose you invest $10,000 in each of two mutual funds from the same family.  Fund A:  2% font end load; annual expense ratio of 1%; fund assets return -8% and 12% over the first two years  Fund B:  no front end load; 4% back end load which decreases by 1% at the end of each year; annual expense ratio of 1.5%; fund assets return -10% and 15% over the first two years  a)  Suppose you closed your account in each fund at the end of two years, what is your wealth in each fund? (6 points)  b)  Suppose you stay invested in each fund for three years and Fund A returns 15% in year three and Fund B returns 20% in year three.  After three years, which fund provides greater wealth?  Show your work.  (5 points) c)  What is the annualized rate of return of each fund over the three-year period?  (5 points)

You decide to sell short 2,000 shares of LCB stock. The current share price is $82 and the initial margin requirement is 55%. Your broker imposes a maintenance margin requirement of 40%. a. Initially, what is the balance in the margin account? (3 points) b. After one year the share prices ends at $93.  What is your return? (4 points) c. With the share price at $93 after one year, do you receive a margin call?  Show me how you determine this. (4 points) d. If you get a margin call, how many dollars must you add to your account? Show your work.  (4 points)

Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl and Christian Practice: A Spiritual Warfare of Ego vs. Love. Today’s discussion, our final one for the semester, with Dr. Christopher Nelson focuses on the existence of slavery within a society that purports to fulfill Christian principles. While Harriet Jacobs astutely and consistently condemned the hypocritical Christianity practiced by her owners and the white community, who used religion to justify slavery and the brutalization that perpetuated it, she also acknowledged her and family members sincere religious convictions that enabled many enslaved people to maintain dignity and resilience amidst constant degradation. Today’s discourse will delve into this enduring phenomenon, as Jacob’s narrative illustrates –how Christian faith, and religion in general, can be employed to justify evil as readily as it can be harnessed to promote justice.NOTE: video begins at 30 seconds into the stream. 

Two options below. Answer only one, a OR b.    a. What are the two types of provider maldistribution and why does each occur?   b. Physician-Hospital joint ventures with health plans require clinical integration. What does that mean and what can it look like in practice?

The nurse is caring for a client with a hemothorax who has a chest tube attached to a closed-chest drainage system. The nurse notes 50 mL of dark red drainage in the collection chamber over the past hour. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?  

The nurse is reviewing laboratory data for a client admitted to the emergency department with chest pain that developed 3 hours ago. Which serum value requires immediate action by the nurse?  

The nurse is caring for a client who has an atrial pacemaker. Which of the following findings would the nurse expect to observe on the client’s electrocardiogram strip?  

A nurse cares for a client after cardiac catherization. During assessment of the groin site, the nurse notices that the dressing is saturated with blood and a small trickle leaks down the client’s leg. What should the nurse do first?