How many terms are required to calculate the standard deviation of a portfolio containing 100 securities?
a) 100
b) 10,100
c) 4500
d) 5050
e) 4,950
e) 4,950
Solution: e (note that this is 100(100 + 1)/2 = 5,050)
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A. Brendan is persuading Meryl to loan him $10 so he can order a pizza. B. Chad is trying to convince his biology lab partner to sketch the internal organs of the frog they dissected in lab. C. Daniel is creating a logo for his home-based Web services company. D. Steve is trying to convince his professor that he deserves an "A." E. Anna is trying to persuade her husband to attend her family reunion.
The Discounted Payback Period in B9 will be ___________ the Payback Period in B7.
a) less than
b) equal to
c) greater than
d) Could be any of the above
e) None of the above
Which of the following types of firms do you expect to have high or low sales margins? Why?
Chartists advocate that
A) history repeats itself. B) patterns appear that are very clear and distinctive. C) formations are less important than the direction of the latest price movement. D) a breakout below a support line is a buy signal.