Exhibit 12

question 33

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 12.3 A fund manager wants to know if it equally likely that the Dow Jones Industrial average will go up each day of the week.For each day of the week,the fund manager observes the following number of days when the Dow Jones Industrial average goes up. Refer to Exhibit 12.3.For the goodness-of -fit test,the null and alternative hypotheses are:

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Productivity Growth

The rate at which an economy's or an industry's output per unit of input (labor, capital, etc.) increases over time, indicating improvement in efficiency.

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Health Care Costs

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Overallocation

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