Velma Vasquez,fund Manager of the Vasquez Value Fund,manages a Portfolio

question 34

Multiple Choice

Velma Vasquez,fund manager of the Vasquez Value Fund,manages a portfolio of 250 common stocks. Velma relies on various statistics,such as variance,to assess the overall risk of stocks in an economic sector.Her staff reported that for a sample 14 utility stocks the mean annualized return was 14% and that the variance was 3%. Assume that annualized returns are normally distributed. The 90% confidence interval for the population variance of annualized returns is _______.

• A) 0.018 to 0.064
• B) 0.016 to 0.078
• C) 0.017 to 0.066
• D) 0.016 to 0.075
• E) 0.020 to 0.080

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