Given the Following Returns, What Is the Variance? Year 1

question 197

Multiple Choice

Given the following returns, what is the variance? Year 1 = 15%; year 2 = 3%; year 3 = -29%; year 4 = -1%.

• A) 0.0137
• B) 0.0182
• C) 0.0347
• D) 0.0398
• E) 0.0468

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