SCENARIO 3-5 The Rate of Return of a Fortune 500 Company Over

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SCENARIO 3-5
The rate of return of a Fortune 500 company over the past 15 years are: 3.17%, 4.43%, 5.93%, 5.43%,7.29%, 8.21%, 6.23%, 5.23%, 4.34%, 6.68%, 7.14%, -5.56%, -5.23%, -5.73%, -10.34%
-Referring to Scenario 3-4,the arithmetic mean of the customs data is _____.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A method to assess how much the values in a dataset diverge from one another.

Normally Distributed

A type of distribution characterized by a symmetrical bell-shaped curve, where the mean, median, and mode are equal.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, or distribution, calculated by summing the values and then dividing by the number of values.

Standard Normal

A special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, commonly used in z-score calculations.