Question 1
Below are the share prices and per-share earnings over the last 12 months for four companies at a point during the summer of 2009. At least at the time, which company had the largest P/E ratio?
Stock Price Dividend
Apple (APPL) $ 165.51 $ 5.74
Dell (
Hewlett-Packard (
*Apple
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Question 2
Looking through the financial records of a local nonprofit organization, you learn that the organization’s treasurer paid $950 for a $1,000 bond with a 5.6 percent interest rate. What is the bond’s current yield?
*5.9 percent
6.2 percent
23.5 percent
589.5 percent
Question 3
Metroville plans to pay the $8 million cost of a water and sewer system upgrade by issuing 15-year bonds with an interest rate of 5.25 percent. In all, how much will the upgrade cost Metroville?
$80,000
$6,300,000
* $14,300,000
$638,000,000
Question 4
I was surprised by how much the film ___ me emotionally.
*affected
effected
Question 5
The new police chief has pledged to ___ many changes in the department.
affect
*effect
Question 6
The film had a powerful ___ on my emotions.
affect
*effect
Question 7
The reporter missed the board's special meeting because board members had ___ the reporter from the list of people notified about the meeting.
*excepted
accepted
Question 8
The disabled mini submarine had ___ than 20 minutes of air in its crew compartment.
*fewer
*less
Question 9
In this sentence:
"Doctors had warned the singer that he was gaining too much weight."
... the words "that he was gaining too much weight" constitute ___.
*a dependent clause.
an independent clause.
Question 10
In this sentence:
"The star player smacked the ball into the left field bleachers."
... the words "into the left field bleachers" constitute ___.
an infinitive phrase
an absolute phrase
a noun phrase
*a prepositional phrase