A Stock Has Produced Returns of 11 Percent, 4 Percent

question 67

Multiple Choice

A stock has produced returns of 11 percent, 4 percent, -5 percent, -8 percent, and 9 percent for the past five years, respectively.What is the standard deviation of these returns?

• A)8.49 percent
• B)7.52 percent
• C)4.20 percent
• D)8.41 percent
• E)9.23 percent

---

Definitions:

Largest Value

Refers to the maximum value in a given set of data.

Uncontrollable Variation

Variation in a process or system's output that cannot be directly controlled or corrected by adjustments to the process or system itself.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical techniques that describe or summarize a set of data, including measures of central tendency and measures of variability.

COUNTIF(range,criteria)

A function in spreadsheet software that counts the number of cells within a range that meet a specified condition.