A) You want to rent an unfurnished one-bedroom apartment in Durham, NC next year. The mean monthly rent for a random sample of 60 apartments advertised on Craig’s List (a website that lists apartments for rent) is $1000. Assume a population standard deviation of $200. Construct a 95% confidence interval. b) Duncan Jones kept careful records of the fuel efficiency of his car. After the first 100 times he filled up the tank, he found the mean was 23.4 miles per gallon (mpg) with a population standard deviation of 0.9 mpg. Compute the 95 percent confidence interval for his mpg.

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.