Question: Show your work and explain your process for determining the solution for each of these problems on a word document with the solution given below

Show your work and explain your process for determining the solution for each of these problems on a word document with the solution given below the problem.

Written explanation, reasoning, and rationale should use complete sentences.

collect themost recent closing prices of stocksfor your favorite company or brand. You can find this by going tofinance.yahoo.comand searching for "Your Company stock history.

  1. Learn the properties of a probability distribution.
  2. Choose your favorite company or brand and search finance.yahoo.com with that company name and "historical stock prices". Download the stock history for this company for thepast 6 weeksby selecting the appropriate dates and clicking on "Download to Spreadsheet" at the bottom of page.
  3. Calculate the daily change in the closing stock prices by taking the difference between the closing and opening price for the day. This is the daily stock change.
  4. Run the Descriptive Statistics->Summary Table in Excel Data Analysis on the daily stock change. Share the summary table.
  5. Calculate the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the daily stock change. Share these along with the min, median, and max from 3) as your 5-Number Summary.
  6. develop Box & Whiskers Plot using your 5-Number Summary.
  7. Is your daily stock change distribution right skewed (median < mean), left skewed (mean < median), or symmetric (mean median)?
  8. Identify normal probability distributions.
  9. Would you consider your daily stock change to be normally distributed? Why or Why Not?

Usingyour mean and standard deviation, determine the probability for the average of 9 daily changes of this stock to have:

  1. A decrease of 0.5 point or more (X -0.5)?
  2. An increase of more than 0.5 point (X > 0.5)?
  3. A decrease of 1 point or more (X -1)?
  4. An increase of more than 1 point (X > 1)?
  5. explain if these are high or low likelihoods for change.

If you wanted to be 95% sure what the daily change would be, what range for a daily change would you expect?

NOTE FOR THE TUTOR: I WOULD LIKE YOU TO CHOOSE CURRENT DATA FROM MICROSOFT

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