Use the Following Table to Answer the Question

question 55

Multiple Choice

Use the following table to answer the question :

-If interest rates rise by 5 percentage points,say from 10 to 15%,bank profits (measured using gap analysis) will

• A)decline by $0.5 million.
• B)decline by $1.5 million.
• C)decline by $2.5 million.
• D)increase by $2.0 million.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Variance

A measure of variability that quantifies the spread of a set of data points or the dispersion of a distribution around its mean.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion representing the difference between the upper and lower quartiles of a dataset, providing insights into its variability.

Extreme Values

Observations that are significantly higher or lower than the majority of data points in a data set, often perceived as outliers.