ASHEVILLE, N.C.

MONTHLY PRECIPITATION
YEAR JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG
2000 3.10 2.33 3.82 5.11 1.27 2.54 2.84 4.45
2001 2.63 2.73 5.00 1.32 2.47 2.91 5.50 3.20
2002 3.64 1.30 4.36 1.73 3.42 6.13 1.98 2.09
2003 1.19 4.47 4.34 5.25 8.36 6.16 10.88 6.80
2004 0.83 4.20 2.02 2.95 3.23 7.39 4.68 3.79
2005 2.00 2.57 3.33 2.86 1.65 10.09 10.26 5.71
2006 3.58 2.55 0.91 4.58 1.69 5.16 2.81 7.12
2007 3.35 1.45 4.29 1.77 0.96 2.91 4.85 2.84
2008 2.56 3.79 4.51 2.84 1.33 0.85 4.02 5.84
2009 2.40 1.87 4.07 3.54 9.18 6.41 2.88 3.69
2010 7.00 3.35 4.18 2.24 4.89 1.75 3.54 3.47
2011 2.12 2.97 6.95 4.33 2.95 3.83 3.33 3.00
2012 3.85 1.59 2.72 4.66 5.82 1.68 5.78 3.39
2013 8.58 3.56 3.32 5.88 7.78 8.97 13.69 6.98
2014 2.33 2.45 1.76 3.55 2.82 1.03 4.65 2.02

MAX 8.58 4.47 6.95 5.88 9.18 10.09 13.69 7.12

MIN 0.83 1.3 0.91 1.32 0.96 0.85 1.98 2.02

RECIPITATION
SEP OCT NOV DEC Annual
3.27 0.00 4.25 2.37 35.35
4.37 0.60 1.42 2.34 34.49
6.05 3.14 4.23 6.40 44.47
3.01 2.33 3.89 2.78 59.46
13.71 1.11 5.02 3.43 52.36
0.34 1.20 3.74 3.51 47.26
7.80 2.93 4.52 4.64 48.29
3.40 3.02 1.49 4.06 34.39
1.70 1.84 1.61 4.74 35.63
8.17 5.50 5.26 9.16 62.13
4.15 2.94 5.49 1.26 44.26
3.74 2.39 5.32 5.11 46.04
5.93 4.01 0.85 4.38 44.66
3.05 2.19 3.55 7.67 75.22
5.92 3.35 2.51 1.36 33.75

13.71 5.5 5.49 9.16 75.22

0.34 0 0.85 1.26 33.75

 Monthly Stock Prices for Microsoft (MSFT) and S&P500

Prices Returns Normalized Prices

Date MSFT S&P500 MSFT S&P500 MSFT S&P500

2020m1 3225.52 165.08115 100 100
2020m2 2954.22 157.10976 -0.08411 -0.048288 $91.59 95.171229
2020m3 2584.5901 153.35759 -0.125119 -0.023882 80.129409 92.898305
2020m4 2912.4299 174.26421 0.126844 0.136326 90.293345 105.56276
2020m5 3044.3101 178.19273 0.0452818 0.0225435 94.381994 107.94251
2020m6 3100.29 198.44472 0.0183884 0.1136522 96.117525 120.21041
2020m7 3271.1201 199.90742 0.0551013 0.0073708 101.41373 121.09645
2020m8 3500.3101 219.91669 0.0700647 0.1000927 108.51925 133.21732
2020m9 3363 205.59077 -0.039228 -0.065142 104.26226 124.53922
2020m10 3269.96 197.90787 -0.027666 -0.03737 101.37776 119.8852
2020m11 3621.6299 209.24649 0.1075456 0.0572924 112.2805 126.75371
2020m12 3756.0701 217.97752 0.0371215 0.0417261 116.44851 132.04265
2021m1 3714.24 227.32698 -0.011137 0.0428919 115.15167 137.7062
2021m2 3811.1499 227.7386 0.0260914 0.0018107 118.15614 137.95554
2021m3 3972.8899 231.59306 0.0424386 0.0169249 123.17052 140.29043
2021m4 4181.1699 247.71233 0.0524253 0.0696017 129.62778 150.05489
2021m5 4204.1099 245.25662 0.0054865 -0.009914 130.33898 148.56731
2021m6 4297.5 266.71515 0.022214 0.0874942 133.23433 161.56608
2021m7 4395.2598 280.50873 0.0227481 0.0517165 136.26515 169.92172
2021m8 4522.6802 297.21655 0.0289904 0.0595626 140.21554 180.04269
2021m9 4307.54 278.09628 -0.047569 -0.064331 133.5456 168.46035
2021m10 4605.3799 327.12219 0.0691439 0.1762911 142.77946 198.15841
2021m11 4567 326.10617 -0.008334 -0.003106 141.58957 197.54295
2021m12 4766.1802 332.36542 0.0436129 0.0191939 147.76471 201.33457
2022m1 4515.5498 307.3234 -0.052585 -0.075345 139.99448 186.16505
2022m2 4373.9399 295.27667 -0.031361 -0.039199 135.60418 178.86759
2022m3 4530.4102 305.31476 0.0357733 0.0339955 140.45519 184.94829
2022m4 4131.9302 274.82388 -0.087957 -0.099867 128.10121 166.47805
2022m5 4132.1499 269.22876 5.317E-05 -0.020359 128.10802 163.08874
2022m6 3785.3799 254.92726 -0.08392 -0.05312 117.3572 154.42542
2022m7 4130.29 278.66013 0.0911164 0.0930966 128.05036 168.80191
2022m8 3955 259.53287 -0.04244 -0.06864 122.61589 157.21533
2022m9 3585.6201 231.66524 -0.093396 -0.107376 111.16409 140.33416
2022m10 3871.98 230.89932 0.0798634 -0.003306 120.04204 139.87019
2022m11 4080.1101 253.78732 0.0537529 0.0991255 126.49465 153.73489
2022m12 3839.5 239.22082 -0.058971 -0.057396 119.03507 144.91105
2023m1 4076.6001 247.19086 0.0617529 0.0333167 126.38583 149.739
2023m2 3970.1499 248.79683 -0.026112 0.0064969 123.08558 150.71183
2023m3 3968.5 273.04001 -0.000416 0.0974417 123.03443 165.39745
Student Number Grade Letter Grade Grade Range
Mary 27 F 0F
John 48 F 60 D
Jennifer 95 A 70 C
Mo 20 F 80 B
Simon 72 C 90 A
Noah 30 F 100 A+
Terry 71 C
Sara 67 D
Zvi 5F
George 58 F
 Dow Jones 30 Industrials Stock Price on 27 August 2022 Prices

3M Corporation 261.54
Alcoa Inc 60.46
Altria Group Inc 142.26
American Express Company 135.11
American Intl Group Inc 199.17
Boeing Co 68.75
Caterpilar Inc 105.51
Citigroup, Inc 131.56
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company 137.90

What was the average price? 138.03

What was the median price? 135.11
What is the Maximum Price? (Use MAX function) 261.54
What is the Maximum Price? (Use LARGE function) 261.54
What is the Minimum Price? (Use MIN function) 60.46
What is the Minimum Price? (Use LARGE function) 60.46
Determine the relative ranking of Boeing Co 8
Determine the number of companies in the list in column A 9
Determine number of share prices in the list in column B 9
determine number of companies whose share price is greater or equal to $105.70 0
 Stock Percentage of Portfolio
A 30%
B 25%
C 45%

Calculate the Expected Return of the Portfolio Using Sumproduct Function 0.162
Calculate the expected return of the portfolio by constructing an excel func 0.162
Stock Return
22%
15%
13%
 ANNUITY TABLE
r, interest 9%
N, number of periods 5
PV factor 3.8897

Number of
periods PRESENT VALUE OF AN ANNUITY OF $1 FOR N PERIODS
1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8%
1 0.9901 0.9804 0.9709 0.9615 0.9524 0.9434 0.9346 0.9259
2 1.9704 1.9416 1.9135 1.8861 1.8594 1.8334 1.8080 1.7833
3 2.9410 2.8839 2.8286 2.7751 2.7232 2.6730 2.6243 2.5771
4 3.9020 3.8077 3.7171 3.6299 3.5460 3.4651 3.3872 3.3121
5 4.8534 4.7135 4.5797 4.4518 4.3295 4.2124 4.1002 3.9927
6 5.7955 5.6014 5.4172 5.2421 5.0757 4.9173 4.7665 4.6229
7 6.7282 6.4720 6.2303 6.0021 5.7864 5.5824 5.3893 5.2064
8 7.6517 7.3255 7.0197 6.7327 6.4632 6.2098 5.9713 5.7466
9 8.5660 8.1622 7.7861 7.4353 7.1078 6.8017 6.5152 6.2469
10 9.4713 8.9826 8.5302 8.1109 7.7217 7.3601 7.0236 6.7101

Construct the annuity table above using Data Tables

 9% 10%
0.9174 0.9091
1.7591 1.7355
2.5313 2.4869
3.2397 3.1699
3.8897 3.7908
4.4859 4.3553
5.0330 4.8684
5.5348 5.3349
5.9952 5.7590
6.4177 6.1446