1. Your parents own a department store in Denver. The store's market value was the same as the book value when they first opened the store. Which one of the following is most apt to cause the market value of this store to be lower than the book value?
Improvements to the surrounding area by other store owners.
Addition of a stop light at the main entrance to the store's parking lot.
The replacement of old inventory items with more desirable products.
Construction of a new highway that routes traffic away from the store.
A sudden and unexpected increase in inflation
2. For the most recent seven years, the U.S. Department of Education reported the following number of bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science: 4,436; 5,550; 6,319; 7,303; 8,779; 11,244; 15,146. What is the annual arithmetic mean number of degrees awarded?
About 9,586
About 8,397
About 4,722
About 9,109