The Return Expected from a Risky Investment Is 24 Percent

question 90

Multiple Choice

The return expected from a risky investment is 24 percent, and the standard deviation of this return is 17 percent.If returns from this investment are normally distributed, what is the probability that the investment may earn a negative rate of return? (Note: Table V is required to work this problem.)

• A)8.33%
• B)7.93%
• C)6.88%
• D)5.44%

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Definitions:

Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of demand or supply to changes in price, income, or other economic factors.

Resource Demand

The total amount of resources (such as labor, capital, and materials) that producers require to produce goods and services at various price levels.

Elastic Demand

Product or resource demand whose price elasticity of demand is greater than 1, so that any given percentage change in price leads to a larger percentage change in quantity demanded. As a result, quantity demanded is relatively sensitive to (elastic with respect to) price.

Output Effect

The change in total output resulting from adjusting the production of one good in response to price changes, while holding utility constant.