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question 63

Multiple Choice

Consider a 4.5 percent TIPS with an issue CPI reference of 187.2. At the beginning of this year, the CPI was 199.5 and was 213.7 at the end of the year. What was the capital gain of the TIPS in dollars?

• A) $32.73
• B) $46.92
• C) $62.49
• D) $75.85

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Definitions:

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and organize the characteristics of a dataset, including measures like mean, median, mode, and standard deviation.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a set of data, indicating the spread of scores.

p < .05

A statistical term indicating that the probability of the observed data, or more extreme, if the null hypothesis were true, is less than 5%, often used as a threshold for statistical significance.

Experimental Group

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