Keys Financial Has Done Extremely Well in Recent Years,and Its

question 36

Multiple Choice

Keys Financial has done extremely well in recent years,and its stock now sells for $175 per share.Management wants to get the price down to a more typical level,which it thinks is $25 per share.What stock split would be required to get to this price,assuming the transaction has no effect on the total market value? Put another way,how many new shares should be given per one old share?

• A)6.98
• B)7.00
• C)7.35
• D)7.72
• E)8.10

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

Population Standard Deviation is a measure of the dispersion or spread of all the values in a given population, indicating how much the individual values in the population differ from the population mean.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample, which impacts the precision of statistical results.

Standard Error

A measure of the accuracy of a sample mean by describing the dispersion of sample means around the population mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values in an entire population.