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John invested $3,000 for 5 years at nominal rate 8%, compounded quarterly. What is the accumulated value at the end of 5 years? What is the annual effective rate of interest?
1)John invested $3,000 for 5 years at nominal rate 8%, compounded quarterly. What is the accumulated value at the end of 5 years? What is the annual effective rate of interest?
2) Mike and Kathy purchased their home at the price of $250,000. They paid $20,000 as down payment and took a mortgage for the balance. The mortgage is for thirty years and has an annual interest rate of 9%, compounded monthly. What are the monthly payments on the mortgage?
3) Write the augmented matrix corresponding to the system of equations and then using Gauss-Jordan elimination method to solve the system
2x +3y =-1
x – y = 2.
4) Let
A = [ 3, -1] B= [2, 1]
[ 5, ,-2], [-1, 3]
- Find 3A – B.
- Find the inverse of A.
- Find A∙B.
5) A random sample of 200 adults are classified below by sex and their level of education attained.
Education Male Female
Elementary 38 45
Secondary 28 50
College 22 17
If a person is picked at random from this group, find the probability that
(a). the person has a secondary education
(b) the person has a college degree, given that the person is a female.
6) A class of 20 students took a 5-point math quiz. The following frequency distribution describes the scores received on the quiz.
| Score x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Probability | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.1 |
- Find the probability that a randomly selected student got a score more than 3.
- Find the Expected value of this distribution.
- Find the variance and standard deviation
7) According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the average local monthly cell phone bill is $42. Suppose local monthly cell phone bills are normally distributed with a standard deviation $12. What is the probability that a randomly selected cell phone bill is between $30 and $55?

