Exam 3: Time Value of Money: an Introduction

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A backhoe can dig 150 feet of trench per hour and costs $500 per hour to hire and operate. A ditch digger can dig six feet of trench per hour. Based on this information, what is the most a ditch digger can charge per hour when digging ditches?

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A wholesale food retailer is offered $14 per carton for 5000 cartons of peaches. The wholesaler can buy peaches from their growers at $12.50 per carton. Shipping costs $1.50 per carton, for the first 1000 cartons, and $1.00 per carton for every carton over that. Will taking this opportunity increase the value of the wholesale food retailer?

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What is one of the main obstacles in cost-benefit analysis?

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Jeff has the opportunity to receive lump-sum payments either now or in the future. Which of the following opportunities is the best, given that the interest rate is 7% per year?

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Use the table for the question(s) below. Consider the following prices from a McDonald's Restaurant: Big Mac \ 2.99 Large Coke \ 1.39 Large Fries \ 1.09 -A McDonald's Big Mac value meal consists of a Big Mac, a large Coke, and a large fries. Assume that there is a competitive market for McDonald's food items and that McDonald's sells the Big Mac value meal for $4.79. Does an arbitrage opportunity exists and if so how would you exploit it and how much would you make on one value meal?

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An investment will pay you $100 in one year and $200 in two years. If the interest rate is 5%, what is the present value of these cash flows?

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Diwali Airlines has a contract that gives it the opportunity to purchase up to 10,000,000 gallons of jet fuel at $2.00 per gallon. The current market price of jet fuel is $2.26 per gallon. Diwali believes it will only need 6,000,000 gallons of jet fuel. What is the value of this opportunity?

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Consider the following timeline: Consider the following timeline:   If the current market rate of interest is 12%, then the value of the cash flows in year 0 and year 2 as of year 1 is closest to: If the current market rate of interest is 12%, then the value of the cash flows in year 0 and year 2 as of year 1 is closest to:

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Stella deposits $5,000 in a savings account at a bank that offers interest of 5.5% on such accounts. What is the value of the money in her savings account in one year's time?

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Date (years) 0 1 2 3 4 Cash Flows -\ 3500 \ 1000 \ 1000 \ 1000 \ 1000

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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A firm that provides tax services to the public intends to offer a premium tax-return service at a higher price than their current services. The managers of the company ask experts in marketing to determine how much an effective ad campaign for such a service would cost, and by how much sales would be increased. They consult experts in economics to calculate the increases in revenue from the success of the campaign, experts in operations to determine the cost of offering the service, and experts in strategy to anticipate possible countermoves by competitors. This example illustrates which of the following points about the role of financial managers?

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Date (Months) 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cash Flows -\ 250 -\ 250 -\ 250 -\ 250 -\ 250 -\ 250

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Which of the following best explains why you cannot use the price of rolled oats at a local supermarket as the competitive market value of rolled oats?

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Which of the following is the overarching principal that a financial manager should follow when making decisions?

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A company decides to close down its plastics division. It has on hand 20 tonnes of styrene monomer, a raw material that has a market price of $700 per tonne, which had been originally purchased at $650 per tonne. Given that the company has no use for the styrene monomer, and that it would cost the company $5000 to store it, what is the value of the 20 tonnes of styrene monomer to the company?

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You own 1000 shares of Newstar Financial stock, currently trading for $57 per share. You are offered a deal where you can exchange these stocks for 900 shares of Ausback Financial Group stock, currently trading at $63 per share. What is the value of this trade, if you choose to make it?

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In order to distinguish between inflows and outflows, different colors are assigned to each of these cash flows when constructing a timeline.

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Like other metals, uranium 308 is traded in competitive markets. Which of the following would most likely value a given weight of uranium 308 the most?

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Which of the following statements regarding arbitrage and security prices is INCORRECT?

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