Which of the Following Is the Best Description of Investments

question 85

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best description of investments in trading securities?

• A) Investments in bonds that management intends to hold to maturity.
• B) Investments in stocks or bonds that are held primarily for the purpose of selling them in the near future.
• C)Investments in more than fifty percent of the voting stock of another company.
• D)Investments that provides the investor significant influence over the investee, but not control over the investee.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of data; it tells us how much the values in a data set vary from the mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the variability or diversity within a full set or entire population of data.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from statistical analysis, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.

Margin of Error

A statistical measure that represents the amount of error in a survey's results, which indicates the range within which the true value is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence.