The Securities and Exchange Commission Has Determined That the Number

question 7

Multiple Choice

The Securities and Exchange Commission has determined that the number of companies listed on the NYSE declaring bankruptcy is approximately a Poisson distribution with a mean of 2.6 per month.Find the probability that no more than one bankruptcy occurs next month.

• A) .1931
• B) .9257
• C) .7326
• D) .4816
• E) .2674

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Definitions:

Output Levels

The quantities of goods or services produced by a firm or industry at a given time or under certain conditions.

Economies of Scale

The economic gains achieved by businesses because of their large scale, volume of production, or extent of operations, which usually results in a reduction in the cost per unit as the scale of operation grows.

Cost-output Elasticity

Cost-output elasticity measures the responsiveness of the cost of producing a good to a change in the output level, indicating how costs change as production scales.

Marginal Cost

The increase in expenditure resulting from the production of an additional unit of a good or service.