QUESTION 1: Chapter 1 of the text (1-13) you will look at calculating a monthly payment for a loan.  A simpler problem is to compute the amount a loan would cost you in one month. Using information from an internet source, determine the current interest rate a credit card or loan. Suppose you borrow $1,000 (or spend $1,000) on a credit card. How much will you owe in one month? 6 months if you pay nothing for 6 months? Compute the 6 month cost in two ways:  Make 6 monthly computations. Enter these as formulas in a spreadsheet. (The goal here is really getting you to use spreadsheets and formulas for computations.) Use the formula, A= 1000*(1 + r)^(N) where N = the number of periods (6) and r = the periodic interest rate = APR/12, where APR is the annual percentage rate. Here are a couple of options to research loans that do not require personal information. Top10PersonalLoans, Credit Karma. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 2: Roll two dice and add the numbers. Roll the dice 40 times and record your results.  Find the eight descriptive statistics in the Chapter 1 for this data set. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world..., choose a country, and find the following rates:  Birth, Death, and Net Immigration for the most current year.  Use the rates and the current population to find the number of each category expected for that year - use ratio tables and be sure to attach them to your answer. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 3: Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world..., choose a country, and find the following rates:  Birth, Death, and Net Immigration for the most current year.  Use the rates and the current population to find the number of each category expected for that year - use ratio tables and be sure to attach them to your answer. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 4: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the mean height of an American male is 69.3 inches and the mean height of an American female is 63.8 inches. The standard deviation for both genders is 2.7 inches. Assuming that heights among a single gender are normally distributed. Find the z-score for your height in inches using the mean of your own gender and then find the percentile at which you fall among people of your own gender using the percentile table from problem 25 of the Module 2 Homework. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 5: Choose one country that you might like to visit. Select a duration for your trip between two and six weeks, and then choose a number of participants between 5 and 10 people. Suppose one goal of your group is to speak to every adult citizen in the country. How many citizens must each missionary need to talk to per day, per hour, and per second to speak to every adult citizen in that country? Is that goal reasonable? A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 6: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the mean height of an American male is 69.3 inches and the mean height of an American female is 63.8 inches. The standard deviation for both genders is 2.7 inches. According to Chebyshev’s Theorem 75% of the data for your gender lies between what two heights? If height is assumed to be normal, what percentage of the data lies between those same two heights? Look in the Guided Worksheets on page 49 for more information.   A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 7: What is percent? Write your height in inches. Suppose it increases by 15%, what would your new height be?  Now suppose your increased height decreases by 15% what is your new height?  A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 8: Many students take online courses because they are more convenient for their schedules. What are some of the tradeoffs for taking an online course in a subject such as math? What tools are you using to overcome these challenges? QUESTION 9: Select one of the options below and create a linear equation to represent the monthly bill. When will the plans cost the same?   Explain when each plan is a better option. Option 1: Plan A $39.99 for 200 min and $1.25 for each min after.  Plan B $29.99 for 200 min and $1.50 for each min after. Option 2: Plan A $25.75 plus $.75 per min.  Plan B $20.99 plus $1.00 per min Option 3: Plan A $39.99 plus $1.25 per min.  Plan B $25.99 plus $1.75 per min Option 4: Plan A $45.99 for 400 min and $.50 for each min after.  Plan B $49.99 for 400 min and $.40 for each min after QUESTION 10: In Chapter 1 of the text we looked at calculating a monthly payment for a loan.  A related formula is to calculate the amount accruing when regular payments are made into an interest bearing account - often called the Savings Plan formula.  (A is the accrued amount after t years of making regular payments, PMT, into an account at interest rate, r%, compounded ntimes each year.)         A(t) =  PMT((1 + r/N)Nt - 1)/(r/N)                 = PMT*((1 + r/N)^(N*t) - 1)/(r/N) The second version is essentially in the form used in Excel Suppose you want to buy a car and have decided that you can save $100 a month.  Using information from an internet source, determine the current interest rate on savings accounts and use the information to answer the following: How much money will you have saved in two year’s time? How much will be interest? Why wouldn’t a linear model work here? Here is one option to research accounts that do not require personal information: NerdWallet A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 11: Use the digits of your birthday as the amount of your initial investment (i.e., 6/25 is $625), calculate the value of this investment after 10 years at 3.5% APR for interest compounded yearly, quarterly, monthly, and daily. What do you notice? A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ. QUESTION 12: Using the average inflation rates from: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/his... use the geometric mean to find the average percent change in inflation for the past 5 years. QUESTION 13: What are the four major categories of securities? How are they evaluated? QUESTION 14: What are your favorite and least favorite experiences in this class so far? 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I used the DC Network to locate information about the 10 Strategic Points, the Prospectus template, the Proposal template, and the Dissertation template.Each of these have their own purpose.For instance, the 10 Strategic Points are for identifying the research topic, literature review, problem statement, research questions, the phenomena or variables, the research methodology and design, the data collection process, the data analysis process, and the purpose statement which are all the foundation of the birth of each doctoral students dissertation (Grand Canyon University, 2016).The Prospectus template is for the doctoral student to utilize as a road map for the final dissertation that will assist with the creating of the dissertation proposal which will expand on the previous 10 Strategic Points (Grand Canyon University, 2017).The proposal template is for the continued expansion of both the 10 Strategic Points and the Prospectus which will also include a table of contents, list of tables, list of figures, completed chapter one, completed chapter two, completed chapter three complete, references, appendix A, appendix B, appendix C, and appendix D (Grand Canyon University, 2015b). The Dissertation template is for the completed dissertation with the additional signature pages, verification page of original work, abstract, dedication, and acknowledgement, completed chapter four, and completed chapter five (Grand Canyon University, 2015a).I have a plan to interact with these documents throughout my doctoral student journey.I have already started my 10 Strategic Points in previous classes here and there and then it came to a full circle with much clarity in my first residency.However, I have and will continue to update it as I continue along this journey and find more updated or even more solid articles to be the foundation of my dissertation.In addition, I had started on my prospectus but still have a long way to go.My goal is to get it done prior to my next residency which will be the summer of 2018.The purpose of each document is to help the doctoral student to create, develop, and complete the dissertation since each document assists with the next document in the journey.I will interact with each of these documents as I progress through each one of my classes to incorporate it into my dissertation.Please provide a 250 word response to the above question. Please also use at least 1 peer reviewed article as a reference and please list reference in paper in APA 6th edition format.