THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A small accounting office is trying to determine its staffing needs for the coming tax season.The manager has collected the following data: 46,27,79,57,99,75,48,89,and 85.These values represent the number of returns the office completed each year over the entire nine years it has been doing tax returns.
-For this data,what is the coefficient of variation for the number of tax returns completed each year?

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Definitions:

Basic Earnings Per Share

A measure of a company's profitability that shows how much of its profits are allocated to each share of common stock.

Stock Split

A corporate action in which a company divides its existing shares into multiple shares to boost the liquidity of the shares, though the market capitalization remains unchanged.

Basic Earnings Per Share

A calculation that measures the profitability available to a company's common shareholders, dividing net income by the number of common shares outstanding.

Convertible Securities

Financial instruments, such as bonds or preferred shares, that can be converted into a specified number of another type, typically common stock, at a predetermined price.