Which of the Following Factors Does Not Help Explain the Instability

question 179

Multiple Choice

Which of the following factors does not help explain the instability of investment?

• A)Business expectations can quickly change for unpredictable reasons.
• B)Innovations in the economy occur quite irregularly.
• C)Profits of firms are highly variable from one period to the next.
• D)Purchases of capital goods are usually nondiscretionary and cannot be postponed.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a dataset whose distribution forms a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve when plotted, characterized by specific mean and standard deviation values.

Independent

Describes a characteristic of variables in an experiment or study that are not influenced or caused by another variable.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the diversity or variability within a data set, reflecting how much individual data points differ from the mean.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.