A "Nominal Return" Is

question 45

Multiple Choice

A "nominal return" is

• A)a return that has not been adjusted for inflation.
• B)the type of return that is quoted for securities by the financial press.
• C)the return that a security would have earned had there been no inflation.
• D)both A and B.

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Definitions:

Simple Random Samples

Samples drawn in such a way that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected, ensuring that the sample represents the population well.

Proportion

A statistic that measures the fraction of the total number of items in a set that are of a particular category or characteristic.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the occurrence of rare events or the number of events in fixed intervals of time or space.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.