EMDA 2020 Take Home Final: Put A Big, Bold Red Letter Answers Beside The
EMDA 2020 Take Home Final: Put A Big, Bold Red Letter Answers Beside The
EMDA 2020 Take Home Final: Put A Big, Bold Red Letter Answers Beside The
EMDA 2020
Take Home Final
March 6-7, 2020
Instructions
3. You can answer two ways: In WORD, write your name at the
header at the top of this page. Your name should seed to the
other sheets. You can highlight the correct answers directly or
put a BIG, BOLD RED LETTER ANSWERS BESIDE THE
QUESTIONS. Save and email this doc file to [email protected]
and [email protected]
4. Or, you can print this exam and write in your answers You
scan your answers and email them to us above. PDF format,
please, and do not use cellphone photographs. They are not
clear.
6. Assume alpha = .05 unless stated. You have normal and Chi-
square tables in the appendices. When appropriate, you can
simplify and use the empirical rule.
MDM 2020!
NAME: Victor Mari C. Baguilat Jr.
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alit #resp
Price y onses
3 0 4
2 0 1
1 0 4
3 1 8
2 1 21
1 1 20
3 2 26
2 2 22
1 2 23
3 3 15
2 3 12
1 3 9
3 4 7
2 4 4
1 4 4
NAME: Victor Mari C. Baguilat Jr.
a Accept the Ha that high price are perceived to have higher quality
b Accept the Ho that high price are not perceived to have higher quality.
c Accept the Ha that price is related to quality
d Accept the Ho that low quality is unrelated to low prices.
e none of the above
For problems 5-7: You invest in a Christmas ornaments making shop in a medium
security prison. These are the cash flows you experience for 5 years from your annual
Christmas sales:
5. (5 points) What is your net present value of all cash flows at hurdle rate of 10%?
b.
a +23,079
b +25,386
c -98,581
d +75,671
e None of the above
c. 6. (5 points) What is your NPV at hurdle of 15%
a +18,865
b -125,788
c -31,235
d -27,671
e None of the above
NAME: Victor Mari C. Baguilat Jr.
8. (5 points) You buy a retirement policy that will give you a lump payment of P
c. 2,500K (2.5 million) 10 years from now (year 10). It costs you 50K as a
downpayment for the policy now, and then you pay annual premiums of 150K for
the next nine years. What is your NPV at 10%?
d. 9. (5 points) Using Rule of 72, when will I double my money, given monthly i= 9%?
10. (10 points) in an election of a town mayor, you poll 1,500 voters one week before
election day. The candidates receive the following percentages of the polls==mpt
c. not the actual votes, but projections based on your survey:
If the polls are assumed true and people will not change their minds, what is the
right statement?
For problems 11-12. The mean temperature of Manila is 28 C in the month of
May, with sd = 2 C.
11. (5 points) Use the empirical rule. What percentage of the temperatures in May
a. lie between 24 and 30 C?
12. (5 points) Use the z-table. What percentage of the temperatures in May are
b. greater than 26 C?
FOR PROBLEMS 13-14 and bonus questions 15-16, use the accompanying TOY
HR WORKSHEET.xls
(See the data dictionary tab for an explanation of data.) Briefly, we surveyed 37
employees about their feelings about their employer. On a scale of 1 to 7, we asked if
they were engaged (7 = very excited and focused about work) or not, and satisfied (7 =
happy about their place in the company) or not. We also captured demographics—male
or female, age, manager or employee, years of training, years of tenure at work, etc. (The
fields in yellow are categorical versions of the fields to the left.) Finally we captured
their productivity, from their last ratings by superiors, on a scale of 1 (unproductive) to
10 (productive).
15.
b. Regression: Productivity
BONUS!
A researcher wanted to show that the
dependent Y variable productivity is related to
engagement and satisfaction. He ran a regression on these
variables, with this output:
indicates that
Appendix 1: Z-table
NAME: Victor Mari C. Baguilat Jr.
df P = 0 .0 5 P = 0 .0 1 P = 0 .0 0 1
1 3 .8 4 6 .6 4 1 0 .8 3
2 5 .9 9 9 .2 1 1 3 .8 2
3 7 .8 2 1 1 .3 5 1 6 .2 7
4 9 .4 9 1 3 .2 8 1 8 .4 7
5 1 1 .0 7 1 5 .0 9 2 0 .5 2
6 1 2 .5 9 1 6 .8 1 2 2 .4 6
7 1 4 .0 7 1 8 .4 8 2 4 .3 2
8 1 5 .5 1 2 0 .0 9 2 6 .1 3
9 1 6 .9 2 2 1 .6 7 2 7 .8 8
1 0 1 8 .3 1 2 3 .2 1 2 9 .5 9
1 1 1 9 .6 8 2 4 .7 3 3 1 .2 6
1 2 2 1 .0 3 2 6 .2 2 3 2 .9 1
1 3 2 2 .3 6 2 7 .6 9 3 4 .5 3
1 4 2 3 .6 9 2 9 .1 4 3 6 .1 2
1 5 2 5 .0 0 3 0 .5 8 3 7 .7 0
1 6 2 6 .3 0 3 2 .0 0 3 9 .2 5
1 7 2 7 .5 9 3 3 .4 1 4 0 .7 9
1 8 2 8 .8 7 3 4 .8 1 4 2 .3 1
1 9 3 0 .1 4 3 6 .1 9 4 3 .8 2
2 0 3 1 .4 1 3 7 .5 7 4 5 .3 2
2 1 3 2 .6 7 3 8 .9 3 4 6 .8 0
2 2 3 3 .9 2 4 0 .2 9 4 8 .2 7
2 3 3 5 .1 7 4 1 .6 4 4 9 .7 3
2 4 3 6 .4 2 4 2 .9 8 5 1 .1 8
2 5 3 7 .6 5 4 4 .3 1 5 2 .6 2
2 6 3 8 .8 9 4 5 .6 4 5 4 .0 5
2 7 4 0 .1 1 4 6 .9 6 5 5 .4 8
2 8 4 1 .3 4 4 8 .2 8 5 6 .8 9
2 9 4 2 .5 6 4 9 .5 9 5 8 .3 0
3 0 4 3 .7 7 5 0 .8 9 5 9 .7 0
3 1 4 4 .9 9 5 2 .1 9 6 1 .1 0
3 2 4 6 .1 9 5 3 .4 9 6 2 .4 9
3 3 4 7 .4 0 5 4 .7 8 6 3 .8 7
3 4 4 8 .6 0 5 6 .0 6 6 5 .2 5
3 5 4 9 .8 0 5 7 .3 4 6 6 .6 2
3 6 5 1 .0 0 5 8 .6 2 6 7 .9 9
3 7 5 2 .1 9 5 9 .8 9 6 9 .3 5
3 8 5 3 .3 8 6 1 .1 6 7 0 .7 1
3 9 5 4 .5 7 6 2 .4 3 7 2 .0 6
4 0 5 5 .7 6 6 3 .6 9 7 3 .4 1