You Have $3,000 That You May Need Any Day to Replace

question 3

Multiple Choice

You have $3,000 that you may need any day to replace the furnace in your house. Which of the following would be the best place to put the $3,000?

• A) A one-year CD earning 4%
• B) A common stock mutual fund earning 9%
• C) A savings account earning 2%
• D) Shares of stock in a high-tech company that could double in 6 months

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Definitions:

Execution

The process of running a program or command, whereby the code is carried out by the computer's CPU.

Try Block

A code structure used to handle exceptions, allowing a program to try executing code that might throw an error.

Catch Block

A section in try-catch statement in programming that captures and handles exceptions generated by the try block.

Exception Thrown

A term used in programming to describe an event that occurs during the execution of a program that disrupts the normal flow of instructions.