TABLE 8-9 a Wealthy Real Estate Investor Wants to Decide Whether

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TABLE 8-9
A wealthy real estate investor wants to decide whether it is a good investment to build a high-end shopping complex in a suburban county in Chicago. His main concern is the total market value of the 3,605 houses in the suburban county. He commissioned a statistical consulting group to take a sample of 200 houses and obtained a sample average market price of
$225,000 and a sample standard deviation of $38,700. The consulting group also found out that the average differences between market prices and appraised prices was $125,000 with a standard deviation of $3,400. Also the proportion of houses in the sample that are appraised for higher than the market prices is 0.24.
-Referring to Table 8-9, what will be the 90% confidence interval for the total difference between the market prices and appraised prices of the houses in the suburban county constructed by the consulting group?

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Definitions:

Inventory Turnover Ratio

A metric indicating how often a company's inventory is sold and replaced over a specific period, useful in evaluating the efficiency of inventory management.

Return on Equity

A measure of a corporation's profitability that reveals how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.

Average Collection Period

The average number of days it takes for a company to receive payments owed by its customers.

Current Ratio

A financial metric assessing a firm's capacity to settle debts due within a year by comparing its current assets to its current liabilities.