Jake Purchased 200 Shares of ABC Stock at $21

question 76

Multiple Choice

Jake purchased 200 shares of ABC stock at $21.25 per share. After nine months, he sold all of his shares at a price of $19.88 a share. Jake received a total of $0.55 per share in dividends during the time he owned the shares. Jake's holding period return is

• A) - 3.9%.
• B) 9.7%.
• C) 2.6%.
• D) - 6.4%.

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Definitions:

Tchebysheff's Theorem

Tchebysheff's theorem provides a bound on the probability that a random variable deviates from its mean, regardless of the distribution's shape, for any number of standard deviations.

Stem-And-Leaf Plot

A graphical representation of quantitative data that allows for the shape of the distribution to be easily seen, sorting data into "stems" and "leaves."

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, representing the middle 50% of values.

Boxplot

A graphical representation of data that shows the distribution's five-number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.