A Company Purchased Land on Which to Construct a New

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Essay

A company purchased land on which to construct a new building for a cost of $250,000. Additional costs incurred were:
$\begin{array}{|l|r|}\hline \text { Real estate broker's commissions } & \$ 15,000 \\\hline \text { Legal fees incurred in purchase of the real estate } & 2,500 \\\hline \text { Landscaping } & 10,000 \\\hline \text { Expenses to remove old house located on land } & 3,000 \\\hline \text { Proceeds from selling materials salvaged from old house } & 1,000 \\\hline\end{array}$ What total dollar amount should be charged to land and what amount should be charged to the new building?

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of all the data points in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in a population, indicating how much each member differs from the population mean.

Confidence Level

The probability or percentage that specifies how confident one is in a statistical estimate or interval to contain the true parameter of the population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter at a specified confidence level.