A bond with face value of $500,000 has a bid quote of 99.1227 and an asked quote of 99.3996. How much will you, an investor, pay to purchase 10 of these bonds

4969980

Explanation:

Based on the information given in the question, the following can be deduced:

Face value = $500,000

Bid quote = 99.1227

Ask quote = 99.3996

The amount that will be paid by an investor to purchase 10 of these bonds will be:

= 10 × Face value × Ask price

= 10 × 500000 × 99.3996%

= 10 × 500000 × 0.993996

= 4969980

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.