Assume the reserve requirement is 10% and the mpc = 0.6 for the economy when a stock market downturn reduces aggregate demand by $100 billion. instructions: enter your answers as a whole number. a. suppose the federal reserve wants to increase investment demand to offset the reduction in aggregate demand. to accomplish this goal, how much does investment demand need to increase? $ billion b. to increase investment demand by the desired amount, the fed estimates that interest rates will need to by 4% and the money supply will need to by $200 billion. c. in order to achieve the $200 billion change in the money supply, the fed will make an of $ billion.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?