Say you are considering two loans. Loan F has a nominal interest rate of 5. 66%, compounded monthly. Loan G has a rate of 6. 02%, compounded semiannually. Which loan will give the lower effective interest rate, and how much lower will it be? a. Loan G’s effective rate will be 0. 091 percentage points lower than Loan F’s. B. Loan G’s effective rate will be 0. 058 percentage points lower than Loan F’s. C. Loan F’s effective rate will be 0. 302 percentage points lower than Loan G’s. D. Loan F’s effective rate will be 0. 149 percentage points lower than Loan G’s.

Farmers know that driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses the soil and injures future crops. here are data on the "penetrability" of the same type of soil at two levels of compression. penetrability is a measure of how much resistance plant roots will meet when they try to grow through the soil. compressed soil 2.85 2.66 3 2.82 2.76 2.81 2.78 3.08 2.94 2.86 3.08 2.82 2.78 2.98 3.00 2.78 2.96 2.90 3.18 3.16 intermediate soil 3.17 3.37 3.1 3.40 3.38 3.14 3.18 3.26 2.96 3.02 3.54 3.36 3.18 3.12 3.86 2.92 3.46 3.44 3.62 4.26 use the data, omitting the high outlier, to give a 95% confidence interval for the decrease in penetrability of compressed soil relative to intermediate soil. compute degrees of freedom using the conservative method. interval: to