If the Actual Return on an Investment Is Different from the Expected

question 70

Multiple Choice

If the actual return on an investment is different from the expected return, then it is likely that:

• A) When investors estimated the expected return they correctly weighed all of information that they believed would bear on the investment.
• B) Interest rates remained unchanged after the expected return was computed.
• C) Even though the expected return was incorrect, the normal return was estimated accurately.
• D) Some unanticipated information about the investment was revealed after the expected return was computed.
• E) Investors didn't use all relevant information that was available when computing the expected return.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

Null hypothesis refers to a statement used in statistics that suggests no statistical significance exists in a set of given observations.

Alternative Hypothesis

The alternative hypothesis is a statement in hypothesis testing that proposes a specific relationship between variables, contrasting the null hypothesis.

One-sided Test

A hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, assessing either a lower or upper tail.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical analysis, the hypothesis that proposes a difference or relationship between two variables, counter to the null hypothesis.