Given the Following Historical Returns, What Is the Standard Deviation

question 236

Multiple Choice

Given the following historical returns, what is the standard deviation? Year 1 = 20%; year 2 = -12%; year 3 = 16%; year 4 = 3%; year 5 = -15%.

• A) 11.89%
• B) 12.48%
• C) 14.18%
• D) 15.85%
• E) 16.87%

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