THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 259

Essay

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
The annual percentage returns on two stocks over a 7-year period were as follows:

-Compare the standard deviations of these two population distributions.

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Definitions:

RNA

Ribonucleic acid. Nucleic acid with roles in gene expression. Most are single-stranded chains of ribonucleotides (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil). See messenger RNA, transfer RNA, ribosomal RNA.

Protein

Organic molecule that consists of one or more polypeptides.

Initiator tRNA

A special type of transfer RNA that begins the process of translating a mRNA molecule to a protein by carrying the first amino acid of the protein.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a single-stranded RNA molecule that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where proteins are synthesized.