Which of the Following Offers Low Risk, Guaranteed Income, Backed

question 47

Multiple Choice

Which of the following offers low risk, guaranteed income, backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government?

• A) Municipal bonds
• B) U.S. government preferred stocks
• C) Common stock in the U.S. postal service
• D) U.S. government bonds

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Definitions:

Spearman Rank Correlation

A non-parametric measure of correlation that assesses the strength and direction of the association between two ranked variables, useful for ordinal data.

Pearson Correlation

A measure of the linear correlation between two variables, quantifying the degree to which they vary together.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

Likert Scale

A psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires, used to represent people's attitudes or feelings on a linear scale of several options ranging from one extreme to another.