SCENARIO 3-3 The Ordered Array Below Represents the Number of Vitamin Supplements

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SCENARIO 3-3
The ordered array below represents the number of vitamin supplements sold by a health food store in
a sample of 16 days.
19, 19, 20, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 41
Note: For this sample, the sum of the values is 448, and the sum of the squared differences between
each value and the mean is 812.
-Referring to Scenario 3-3,the variance of the number of vitamin supplements sold in this sample is_____ .

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Definitions:

Basis Points

One basis point is equal to 1/100th of 1%, used primarily to denote the change in interest rates, equity indexes, and the yield of fixed-income securities.

Price Decline

A decrease in the market price of an asset or security.

Duration

A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond or other fixed-income investment to a change in interest rates, often expressed in years.

Price Volatility

The rate at which the price of an asset increases or decreases for a given set of returns, indicative of the risk or stability.