Interpret the Confidence Interval

question 10

Multiple Choice

Interpret the confidence interval.
-A large software development firm recently relocated its facilities. Top management is
Interested in fostering good relations with their new local community and has encouraged
Their professional employees to engage in local service activities. They wish to
Determine the average number of hours the firm's professionals volunteer per month.
They find the 95% confidence interval of 14.62 to 15.78. Which of the following is the
Correct interpretation?

• A) We are 95% confident that the average number of hours per month volunteered by professionals employed with this firm is between 14.62 and 15.78.
• B) 95% of all firm's professional employees volunteer between 14.62 and 15.78 hours per month.
• C) The number of hours per month volunteered by the firm's professional employees is between 14.62 and 15.78 95% of the time.
• D) All of the above.
• E) None of the above.

Understand the distinction between diversifiable (unsystematic) risk and non-diversifiable (systematic) risk.

Realize the implications of portfolio construction on risk reduction and the concept of the efficient frontier.

Identify how market risk premiums are used to compensate investors for taking on additional risk.

Interpret the impact of economic downturns on diversified and non-diversified portfolios.

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