You and 99 other partners are given the opportunity to purchase a gas station. Each partner would contribute $10,000. The station's revenues have been consistent at$420,000 per year for several years and are expected to remain consistent in the future. The operating costs of the station (including maintenance and repair, depreciation, and salaries) have remained consistent at $ 360,000 per year. 5-year Treasury bills are currently yielding$7.5 percent interest. Would you participate in the transaction? Explain your response.

Bailey, Kaylee, Haley, and Joyce are four sorority sisters who discovered an opportunity to buy an Internet café. To make the purchase, each of the women would have to put up $$ 80,000. The café's revenue is expected to remain stable at $225,000 per year for the foreseeable future. The costs of running the café (excluding the opportunity costs of the investment). $$

Create a graph of an investment demand curve and explain its slope.

Wanda approaches Celia, an analyst with a venture capital firm, about financing her new business venture, a company that will build electricity-generating windmills for residential use. What information should Celia have before deciding whether to fund Wanda's new business?

The Red Sox won the World Series on October 29, 2007. The stock market rose on the same day. The S&P 500 index (an index of the 500 largest corporations in the United States) closed at $1540.98$. Ten-year Treasury notes paid $4.38 \%$ on the government's 10-year obligations. The Fed was set to announce a quarter-point reduction in the fed funds rate to $4.75$ percent. Look up the S&P 500, the 10-year treasury interest rate, and the fed funds rate today. They can be found at http://money.cnn.com. Please explain what has happened to those three numbers since 2007.

What will happen to the present value of money if the market interest rate falls in a year? What happens if market interest rates rise?

How would your responses to the preceding question change if the annual payments were increased to $\$ 2,000,000$ per year for 15 years?

In March 2008, the General Motors building in Manhattan was put up for auction. The skyscraper was expected to fetch more than $3 billion at the time, a record for a single structure. What would you want to know first if you were a real estate investment firm considering bidding on this building? What specific factors would require you to form expectations? What data would you require to form those expectations?

Describe your college or university's capital stock. How would you go about determining its worth? Has your school recently made any significant investments?  If so, describe them. What does your school hope to gain from these investments?

Teresa won the Florida lottery and was given the option of receiving $\$22$ million right away or $\$1.250,000$ per year for the next 30 years. a. How much will Teresa receive in total if she chooses the 30 annual payments? b. Given a 4percent interest rate, what is the present value of the 30 annual payments? Should Teresa choose the upfront payment or the 30 instalments based on this value? c. Given an interest rate of 8percent, what is the present value of the 30 annual payments? Should Teresa choose the upfront payment or the 30 instalments based on this value?

Which of the following is a capital letter, and which is not? Explain your responses. a. A video poker game machine at a local bar that takes quarters b. A $\$ 10$ bill c. A college education d. The Golden Gate Bridge e. The shirts on the rack at Sears f. A government bond g. The Empire State Building h. A savings account i. The Washington Monument j. A Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio

Assume you were offered $2,000 to be delivered in one year. Assume you had the option of putting your money in a safe certificate of deposit that paid a 10percent annual interest rate. Would you be willing to pay$1,900 in exchange for $2,000 after a year? What is the most you would be willing to pay for the$2,000 offer? Assume the offer was $ 2,000, but delivery was to take two years rather than one. What is the highest amount you are willing to pay?

The slope of line l is -3/4. The slope of line n is 4/3. What must be true about lines l and n? A. lines l and n are parallel B. lines l and n are perpendicular C. lines l and n are skew D. lines l and n are the same line.

Draw a pair of parallel lines. Next draw another pair of parallel lines that intersect the. first pair of lines but are not perpendicular to them. Then shade the region enclosed by the intersecting pairs of lines.