The Total Assets of the Philbin Company on January 1

question 107

Multiple Choice

The total assets of the Philbin Company on January 1 were $2.3 million and on December 31 were $2.5 million.Net income for the year was $188,000.Dividends for the year were $75,000,interest expense was $70,000,and the tax rate was 30%.The return on total assets for the year was closest to which of the following?

• A) 6.8%.
• B) 9.5%.
• C) 9.9%.
• D) 10.8%.

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Definitions:

P-Value

The probability measure indicating the likelihood of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of data points, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in statistics that proposes no significant difference or effect between specified populations, conditions, or variables.

Type II Error

A Type II Error occurs in hypothesis testing when a false null hypothesis is not rejected, meaning a real effect or difference was missed.