You Were Told That the Amount of Time Lapsed Between

question 117

Short Answer

You were told that the amount of time lapsed between consecutive trades on the New York Stock Exchange followed a normal distribution with a mean of 15 seconds. You were also told that the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades to fall between 16 to 17 seconds was 13%. The probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades would fall below 13 seconds was 7%. The middle 86% of the time lapsed will fall between which two numbers?

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Definitions:

SML

The Security Market Line, a representation in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) that shows the expected return of a security or portfolio as a function of its systematic risk.

Expected Return

The anticipated amount of profit or loss an investment generates over a given period of time.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of data, often used in finance to quantify the risk associated with a security or investment portfolio.

Coefficient Of Variation

A standardized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, used to assess risk relative to expected returns.