Free HBX CORe Test Practice Test Questions Exam Dumps [Q10-Q28]

NEW QUESTION 10
A stockbroker wishes to examine the relationship between merger failures and stock prices. For 30 days, data were collected for closing stock prices each day and the number of merger failures announced that day. After reviewing the data, the stockbroker believes that merger failures affect stock market prices for more than one day. Which of the following measures would help the stockbroker incorporate that effect into the regression model?

NEW QUESTION 11
Which of the following statements is characteristic of all assets?

NEW QUESTION 12
If an analyst looks at a start-up’s statement of cash flows for the past three years, it is MOST likely that the analyst will find:

NEW QUESTION 13
Which of the following options is an example of revenue?

NEW QUESTION 14
A technology and design company has created a new type of keyboard with different letter placement to make typing easier and more efficient. This new design is also cheaper to manufacture, and the company is able to price the keyboard lower than its competitors. However, sales have been extremely low. What is the MOST likely explanation?

NEW QUESTION 15
In determining free cash flows, how is the change in net working capital calculated?

NEW QUESTION 16

The partial regression output table below describes the relationship between point differential per game and winning percentage for all 30 National Basketball Association teams for the last five seasons. (For a team, the point differential per game is the difference between average points scored and average points allowed per game.) Based on this information, a decrease in point differential of one point per game would have what effect, on average, on a team’s winning percentage?

NEW QUESTION 17
Two years ago, the purchasing manager at a company spent $25,000 on a new machine that would improve production efficiency at the company. The manufacturers of the machine release an updated model that costs $35,000 and that promises to further improve production efficiency. Under what conditions should the purchasing manager upgrade to the new model?

NEW QUESTION 18
The Beveridge curve displays the relationship between the unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate (the number of unfilled jobs divided by the labor force). A government official wants to forecast the job vacancy rate for next month to see whether jobs posted now are likely to be filled. The official runs a simple regression using monthly U.S. data from 20012013; the results are given below.

If the unemployment rate next month is expected to be 6.6% and the vacancy rate this month was 2.58%, by how much is the vacancy rate forecasted to change? Note that percentages are given as values between 0 and 1.

NEW QUESTION 19
Deferred Taxes can be which of the following account types? (Select all that apply.)

NEW QUESTION 20
The only grocery store in a town has recently seen its profits decrease. An executive at the grocery store has been challenged to find a way to reverse this trend without losing significant sales. What is a possible technique the company can use to increase its producer surplus?

NEW QUESTION 21
A company bought a piece of land in 2012 for $200,000. In 2013, the piece of land temporarily reduced in value to $150,000 but then appreciated in value to $220,000. How would the company report this piece of land on its balance sheet for 2013?

NEW QUESTION 22
The management of Company A, a consumer products company, is forecasting revenue as part of their internal budget exercise. Which of the following factors is of the LEAST value in arriving at the forecast revenue amount?

NEW QUESTION 23
An individual is considering whether to fly or take the train for an upcoming trip. This individual works remotely for $10/hour, but will not be able to work while on the airplane or train. The flight would take two hours and cost $125; the train would take eight hours and cost $50. What are the respective total economic costs of taking the flight and taking the train?

NEW QUESTION 24
A company manager commissions a report to study the relationship between sales volume (in thousands of units) and the number of computers in each of the company’s offices. Based on the regression output, which of the following statements is correct?
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NEW QUESTION 25
A financial planning software company has earned large profits for the past four years, attracting new entrants to the market. What effect does the new competition have on the original company’s market?

NEW QUESTION 26
The table below shows sales data from The Geller Company for the month of January. The company’s manager is interested in calculating the average number of units each salesperson sold on their respective sales trips during the month. In total, the five salespeople took at total of 31 sales trips at various times during the month of January.

Which formula below would the manager use to correctly calculate the average number of units Anne sold on her sales trips?

NEW QUESTION 27
A landlocked student believes that people would prefer to live near the ocean if they could afford the additional expense. To test this, the student wants to see whether states bordering an ocean are more likely to have a larger percent of wealthy families than states without an ocean coast. The student collects data from the 50 U.S. states on the percent of families making over $200,000 a year along with whether the state has an ocean coast (where 1 means the state has an ocean coast).

Based on the regression results given below, what can be said at the 95% confidence level?

NEW QUESTION 28
Below is a partial regression output table showing the relationship between a team’s point differential and its winning percentage.(Point differential is defined as the difference between the average number of points a team scores per game and the average number of points per game scored against that team.)

Assuming a significance level of 0.01, which of the following p-values would indicate a significant relationship between the two variables?