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Shown below are selected data from the financial statements of Supreme Co.Dollar amounts are in millions (except for the per share data) .
Supreme reported earnings per share for the year of $4 and paid cash dividends of $1 per share.At year-end,the Wall Street Journal listed Supreme's capital stock as trading at $88 per share.
-200 Supreme's return on assets was:

• A)9.75%.
• B)6.75%.
• C)17.75%.
• D)30.75%.

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Null Hypothesis

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P-Value

A statistical measure that helps to determine the significance of the results obtained from a test, indicating the probability of observing the results given that the null hypothesis is true.

Level Of Significance

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true; commonly denoted by alpha (α).

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