Suppose You Are Told That the Average Return on Investment

question 36

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are told that the average return on investment for a particular class of investments was 7.8% with a standard deviation of 2.3.Furthermore,the histogram of the distribution of returns is approximately bell-shaped.We would expect that 95 percent of all of these investments had a return between what two values?

• A)5)5% and 10.1%
• B)0% and 15%
• C)3)2% and 12.4%
• D)0)9% and 14.7%

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